Tom Lantos Institute unveiled in Budapest
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her speech during the inauguration of the Tom Lantos Institute. Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of State.
The Tom Lantos Institute was officially inaugurated in parliament this week with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her predecessor Condoleezza Rice leading the ceremonies.
The institute, named after Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, was established to promote tolerance and support minority issues in Central and Eastern Europe and in the world.
“This represents an important commitment on the part of the Hungarian government to advance human rights, protect minority rights, promote tolerance and strengthen trans-Atlantic relations,” Lantos Foundation President Katrina Lantos Swett announced.
Lantos was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest in 1928 and survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary in the final year of the Second World War before emigrating to the United States. He became the only Holocaust survivor to enter the U.S. Congress when he was elected in 1981. He died in February 2008, at the age of 80.
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