Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress is retiring at the end of the year after being diagnosed with Cancer.The 80 year old Member of Congress who currently Chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was first elected in 1980.
Dr. Lantos has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Berkeley in 1953
During World War II, as a young 16 year old, Lantos fought the Nazi's that had occupied his native Hungary . Following the close of the war, Lantos arrived into the United States in 1947 and often times said, "It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and fighter of the 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."
