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    Tom Lantos

    American politician (1928-2008)

    The native form of this anställda name fryst vatten Lantos Tamás Péter. This article uses Western name beställning when mentioning individuals.

    Tom Lantos

    In office
    January 3, 2007 – February 11, 2008
    Preceded byHenry Hyde
    Succeeded byHoward Berman
    In office
    January 3, 1981 – February 11, 2008
    Preceded byWilliam Royer
    Succeeded byJackie Speier
    Constituency11th district(1981–1993)
    12th district(1993–2008)
    Born

    Tamás Péter Lantos


    (1928-02-01)February 1, 1928
    Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
    DiedFebruary 11, 2008(2008-02-11) (aged 80)
    Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouse

    Annette Tillemann

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    (m. 1950)​
    Children2 daughters, including Katrina Swett
    RelativesTomicah Tillemann (grandson)
    Levi Tillemann (grandson)
    Charity Tillemann-Dick (granddaughter)
    EducationEötvös Loránd University
    University of W

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    Peter Lantos

    British scientist and author of Hungarian Jewish origin

    Peter Laszlo LantosBEM FMedSci (born 1939) is a British scientist and author of Hungarian Jewish origin. After surviving the Holocaust, he went on to undertake medical studies. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1968 where he worked as a medical researcher, specialising in neurodegenerative diseases. In retirement, he has published books for both adults and children relating to his experience of the Holocaust and he is involved in Holocaust education.

    Biography

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    He was born in Makó in southeast Hungary. In 1944, when Peter was five, his family were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp because of the Holocaust.[1] At the concentration camp, the Nazis murdered his father through grueling forced labor. Peter and his mother were sent back to Hungary on a train that was meant to go to a death camp, meaning they were free from the Holocaust but 21 members of his family had died, inclu

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    The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die

    Join author Peter Lantos to hear about his newest book, The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die: The Graphic Memoir.

    It describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents were deported from a small Hungarian town to Bergen-Belsen. Along the way, unforgettable images flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows, but the adventure gradually turns into nightmare of starvation, freezing cold, disease and death. Peter's father dies in the concentration camp, while he and his mother survive. 

    Originally published as a biography for children in 2023, The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die was the Times Children’s Book of the Week, won the UK Literacy Association's Non-Fiction Book of the Year, shortlisted for the British Book Awards Children’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and r

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