California Congressman and Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos, 80

Tom Lantos, 80, a California Democrat whose experience as the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress shaped his strong support for human rights and U.S. military intervention abroad, died Feb. 11 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. He had esophageal cancer.
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Adam Bernstein

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