[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E203-E204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    A TRIBUTE TO DR. LASZLO N. TAUBER

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                       HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELLA

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 27, 1995
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
pay tribute to Laszlo N. Tauber, M.D., a constituent of mine from 
Montgomery Country, MD, who resides in Potomac with his wife, Diane. 
Born in Budapest, Hungary on February 18, 1915 to Gyula and Katica 
Tauber, Dr. Tauber struggled through the antisemitism of the post-World 
War I era in that nation.
  A graduate of the Jewish High School of Budapest, he was enrolled in 
medical school in 1932 at the Royal Hungarian University Medical School 
in Budapest. Antisemitism dominated his life at medical school, where 
it was typical for students and some professors to taunt and disrupt 
the lives of the Jewish students. Dr. Tauber remained tenacious, 
receiving his medical degree in October 1938. With Hungary's entry into 
World War II, life for the Jews of Hungary disintegrated. Jews were 
sent to the front battle lines and Dr. Tauber's only brother, Imre, 
died in a Russian forced labor camp. Miraculously, Dr. Tauber escaped 
the forced labor camps, deportation and death, surviving in the Jewish 
ghetto in Budapest along with his wife Lilly Manovill--whom he married 
in 1940--when more than 600,000 of his fellow Jewish Hungarians did 
not.
  After the liberation of Hungary, Dr. Tauber continued his medical 
work in Budapest until August 1946 when he received a state scholarship 
to study neurosurgery for a year in Sweden. Dr. Tauber emigrated to the 
United States in November 1947, overcame many obstacles and became a 
well-established surgeon. In 1965, Dr. Tauber, along with many of his 
colleagues, founded the Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, VA. 
He continued his mission to serve the community, well known never to 
turn away a patient at his hospital. Through the ensuing years, Dr. 
Tauber became a part-time developer of real estate and now is believed 
to be the largest landlord to the U.S. Government, developing the 
largest commercial office building in Montgomery County, MD.
  Dr. Tauber became a philanthropist and humanist. He was in the 
forefront of opening up the medical profession to minorities and those 
American students who were forced to study medicine abroad. He soon 
became a benefactor, giving major gifts to Boston University, 
Georgetown University Medical School and Brandeis University. He 
extended generous contributions to the American University and the 
University of Maryland as well. Additionally, Dr. Tauber has endowed 
the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewish History 
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the Negev, Bar-Ilan University and the Israeli Academy of Science. Dr. 
Tauber has contributed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a 
founding member.
  Dr. Tauber has raised a family: A son, Alfred, who today is a 
hemotologist-oncologist and professor of medicine and professor of 
philosophy at Boston University, and a daughter, Ingrid, a graduate of 
the University of Maryland, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in private 
practice in San Francisco.
  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to pay tribute to Laszlo N. 
Tauber, M.D., of Potomac, MD, on his 80th birthday.


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