Sweden’s ambassador to the United States and U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) opened an art exhibit this week based on themes drawn from rabbinic literature. “Legends of the Ba’al Shem Tov” is on display for the next few weeks in the Cannon House Office Building. Lantos, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor saved by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, sponsored the exhibit after learning that a copy of a passport issued during the war by Wallenberg and which now hangs in Lantos’ office belonged to the family of Ferene Flamm, the artist who created the exhibit.
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