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Representative-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) holds a baby while talking to fellow members of Congress during the first session of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol on January 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
January 4, 2019, 8:27 pm
Contrary to her tweet, other refugees were elected to Congress before Ilhan Omar
Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos, Rudy Boschwitz who fled the Nazis as a toddler and Ileana Ros-Lehtine, who escaped Cuba as a child, were all refugees
By Ron Kampeas
The statue of late US Congressman of Hungarian origin Tom Lantos photographed after its ceremonial unveiling near Lantos's former school, Berzsenyi Daniel Secondary School, in Tom Lantos Walk in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, February 1, 2018. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)
February 2, 2018, 1:40 am
Holocaust survivor, US lawmaker Lantos gets Budapest statue
Hungarian-born congressman, saved as a teen by Raoul Wallenberg, remembered for his human rights advocacy
By Pablo Gorondi
Father Patrick Desbois speaks after being awarded the Lantos Human Rights Prize on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2017. (Chris Kleponis)
October 27, 2017, 2:17 am
French priest who uncovered Nazi killing sites awarded Lantos rights prize
Accepting honor named for Holocaust survivor congressman, Father Patrick Desbois warns against standing idle as atrocities are carried out
By Eric Cortellessa
Iraq's only Yazidi member of Parliament, Vian Dakhil, answers questions during an interview on September 20, 2014 in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (photo credit: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP)
January 31, 2017, 10:59 pm
Trump travel ban may block Iraqi Yazidi lawmaker from rights prize
Vian Dakhil, a member of Baghdad parliament, is next month to receive award honoring Holocaust survivor and senator Tom Lantos
By JTA
Holocaust survivor and former US Congressman Tom Lantos in 2005. (photo credit: AP Photos/Ng Han Guan)
September 5, 2016, 6:49 pm
Daughter of late congressman returns Hungarian award in protest
Tom Lantos’s daughter among 100 recipients rejecting Knight’s Cross after it was given to journalist who made anti-Semitic and racist references
By Pablo Gorondi
Budapest's parliament building (Wikipedia/AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5)
February 5, 2016, 1:25 am
Budapest names promenade for late Jewish congressman Tom Lantos
Congress’s only Holocaust survivor honored in hometown, hailed for working ‘for the best for both countries’
By JTA
Barack Obama, left, speaking with Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House on May 20, 2011. (Pete Souza/White House)
May 21, 2015, 10:55 pm
In interview, Obama tries to set terms for US-Israel ties
In a trial run for Friday’s address at a Washington synagogue, US president offers little reassurance to doubters
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/JIM WATSON)
May 16, 2015, 2:31 pm
Obama to mark Jewish heritage month at DC synagogue
White House planning charm offensive directed at US Jewish community following months of tensions with Israel
By JTA
Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. (screen capture: YouTube/USOSCE)
May 8, 2015, 11:20 pm
12 US Congress reps, European envoys to join ‘Solidarity Sabbath’
Group will attend US synagogue services, participate in activities to underline concern over anti-Semitism
By JTA
Jewish lawmakers Brad Sherman (L), and Henry Waxman (R) (photo credit: House.gov)
September 11, 2014, 2:05 am
House Jewish caucus shrinks, causing worries over influence
There will likely be 19 congressmen from community after elections, down from 31, leading to concerns over Israel, other issues
By Ron Kampeas
Boxing Club Prishtina, an abandoned building in downtown Pristina, is believed to have once housed a Jewish institution in the Kosovo capital. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
August 22, 2014, 11:51 am
In Muslim Kosovo, a Jewish claim to nation’s past and future
A centuries-old and aging Jewish community validates Europe’s newest country. Will Israel follow suit?
By Ron Kampeas
Tom Lantos memorial plaque at Szent István Park. (Sam Heller/The Times of Israel)
June 24, 2014, 2:03 pm
Budapest honors congressman Tom Lantos at childhood home
Ceremony remembers the life of the late Hungarian-born US politician, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress
By Sam Heller
Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
May 10, 2013, 11:01 am
Wallenberg Congressional Gold Medal unveiled
First recipient of the congressional honor was George Washington
December 1, 2012, 3:35 am
Albania independence event in DC honors Jews, rescuers
Ceremony celebrates country whose Jews were mostly protected during the Holocaust
July 30, 2012, 10:26 am
‘Jews are always first in the line of attack’
UNESCO Honorary Ambassador Dr. Samuel Pisar, a Holocaust survivor, warns that anti-Semitism on Iranian and Arab TV channels ‘exactly’ like what he heard as a child in Europe
By Ruhama Sosnow
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