Reply #5: He's not a yank as you put it. [View All]

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He's a Hungarian Jew, who as teenager was part of the resistance in that country.

Born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, Lantos was part of an anti-Nazi resistance movement during the German occupation of that country and sought refuge in a safe house established by Raoul Wallenberg. In 1981 Lantos sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Lantos considers himself a secular Jew and is the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the House.<7> Upon immigrating to the United States, he attended the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1953).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos