I didn't know that Tom Lantos was (is) a Holocaust survivor

CatWoman

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Wed Jan-02-08 02:41 PM
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I didn't know that Tom Lantos was (is) a Holocaust survivor

Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 02:42 PM by CatWoman

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Rep. Lantos announces retirement.

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today announced that �he will not seek re-election this year because he has cancer of the esophagus.� Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, is serving his 14th term in Congress.

UPDATE: Read Lantos�s full statement here: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press_display.asp?id=471

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/02/rep-lantos-announces-retirement/

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MADem

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Wed Jan-02-08 02:55 PM
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1. I did.

I like that guy--he's sharp and he's like a dog with a bone when he wants to resolve an issue.

I am heartbroken at his illness. What a loss to our nation. He's a great legislator. I hope for a miracle for him.

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Virginia Dare

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:03 PM
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2. Yes, as was his wife..

Annette, who is also a first cousin to the Gabor sisters.

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CatWoman

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:05 PM
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3. wow

the tidbits you pick up on DU :)

:hi:

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:17 PM
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4. May his health improve

my brother had this type of cancer, and had his esophagus removed. He's doing fine. So it is treatable--hope the Congressman is able to beat his cancer.

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Hamlette

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:23 PM
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5. Excuse my ignorance but what is a "Holocaust survivor"?

according to his Wiki entry, he was born in Hungary and in the resistance and lived in a safe house during the war.

My knee jerk reaction to the term "Holocaust survivor" is: "was in a concentration camp". I guess it means Jewish in occupied territory during the war?

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CatWoman

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:28 PM
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6. that's what it sounds like

from his website:

�It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family, and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a Member of Congress. I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country.

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cali

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:29 PM
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7. I've always though of any European Jew in an occupied

territory who survived as a Holocaust survivor. After all, if he hadn't hidden, he would have been put in a concentration camp and probably killed. Don't you think of people who hid out for years during the Nazi occupation, as survivors? What else would they be?

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CatWoman

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:40 PM
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8. I think some people (not necessarily Hamlette) consider

Jews who came out of the camps alive as Holocaust survivors.

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:43 PM
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9. To be honest,

that's what I thought the term meant. I really thought it meant those with tattoos. I don't particularly object to others using the term but I thats the way I was brought up to think of it

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julialnyc

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Wed Jan-02-08 03:47 PM
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10. He's featured in the Steven Speilberg documentary "The Last Days"

which is a great film and he describes his past

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applegrove

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Wed Jan-02-08 05:03 PM
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11. Wow. 14 terms in office. I wish him well but he sure stuck it to the Nazis in Germany

with a life well lived. 14 terms!

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