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The 76-year-old Lantos, who escaped from Nazi labor camps and served in the anti-Nazi underground in his native Hungary, will help represent the United States on Monday at a special United Nations General Assembly session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of all the Nazi death camps.
He and his wife, Annette, who also lived through the Holocaust -- which consumed most of Hungary's 600,000 Jews in just a few short months in 1944 -- will fly to Poland on Tuesday. They will be part of the official U.S. delegation to mark the day -- Jan. 27, 1945 -- when forces of the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Most of the close relatives of Lantos and his wife were among the estimated 1 million Jews, 150,000 non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and 10,000 war prisoners of other nationalities who died at Auschwitz in its gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
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