Tom Lantos

As a young boy living in Budapest, Tom Lantos was one of the thousands of Hungarian Jews rescued by Raoul Wallenberg by having been placed into a Swedish ‘safe house’. As an adult having immigrated to the United States, he was later elected to Congress in the House of Representatives from the State of California. Congressman Lantos introduced the House Resolution resulting in Public Law 97-54, 95 Statutes at Large 971, according Raoul Wallenberg Honorary Citizenship of the United States of America. Similar laws were later enacted in Canada, Australia, Israel, and Hungary.