R.I.P. Tom Lantos (D-CA), Congress's only Holocaust survivor


	R.I.P. Tom Lantos (D-CA), Congress's only Holocaust survivor

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2-11-2008 11:13 PM

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Lantos will be familiar to anyone who's seen Spielberg's Holocaust documentary, "Last Days," as well as anyone who's followed human-rights debates in Congress over the past thirty years. His death (from esophageal cancer, at age 80) is a real loss.

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Representative Tom Lantos Dies at 80
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Tom Lantos in 2007. 
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