The Lantos Foundation strives to strengthen the role of human rights in American foreign policy and to be a vital voice standing up for our nation's most important values of decency, dignity, freedom, and justice in every corner of the world. We intend to both educate and advocate on behalf of the simple yet profound truth that we are indeed our brothers' keepers — every one of us and every one of them. In so doing we hope to carry on Congressman Lantos' remarkable legacy of service to humanity.
The only survivor of the Holocaust ever elected to Congress, Tom Lantos was in his 14th term when he died in February, 2008. In the final weeks of his life, Tom asked that a non-profit be established to carry on the work he felt so passionately about.