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Survivors Are Saved
By 'Enemy Aliens'

Japanese-American soldiers recall their
role in liberating Jewish survivors at
Dachau.

LARRY DERFNER

Israeli Correspondent

and were reticent to ap-
proach each other. .-
Swarmed over by
reporters, photographers
and cameramen, old
Japanese-Americans and
Jews walked past each
other, not knowing if they
had come face-to-face once
before.
Solly Ganor, however, re-
membered what they looked
like. A member of a Dachau
survivors organization, he
came to meet the ex-soldiers
on their arrival a couple of
days before Yom Hashoah.
He talked with a few of
them, especially with Mr.
Matsumura, and compared
memories: how he had been
with thousands of other
Jews on a death march in
the snow, how he had been
saved by Japanese- Ameri-
can soldiers on the road
about 60 miles from Dachau,

hen Sgt. Clarence
Matsumura, a
World War II
soldier in a segregated
Japanese-American unit of
the U.S. Army, arrived at
Dachau on April 29, 1945, he
thought it looked familiar.
"It reminded me of the
internment camp in Wyom-
ing where my folks were and
where I had been," said Mr.
Matsumura., now 71, in
Jerusalem on Yom Hashoah
(Holocaust Memorial Day).
"The same kind of tar-paper
shacks for barracks, the barb-
ed wire and guard towers — it
looked identical. It made me
disgusted that in Germany
they called them 'extermina-
tion camps, but the place my
parents were in they called
`relocation camps, I thought,
this is bull--; they're the
Japanese-
same thing.
American soldiers
"Later I felt the ovens,
became the most
which were still warm, and
decorated in the
saw the bones and smelled
the burnt human flesh and
history of the U.S
saw the smoke. And in my
mind I had to apologize to how they had taken him to a
the Jewish people because barn for shelter, how they
people weren't exterminated had given him K-rations and
in the internment camps Hershey bars.
where we were. They looked
He recalled meeting the
the same as Dachau, but soldiers: "We had been mar-
they weren't the same."
ching for four days, and I
was just about dead. I fell in
Mr. Matsumura and other
the snow, and when I woke
Japanese-American soldiers
up I saw the German guards '
of the 552nd Field Artillery
had run off. I saw a jeep with
were among the very first
soldiers coming towards me.
Allies to reach Dachau and
I thought they were German
free the surviving prisoners.
soldiers and that they were
Many of those soldiers were
going to kill me. I closed my
drafted or taken as vol-
eyes and waited for a bullet,
unteers from the internment
and then I heard them talk-
camps where 120,000
ing English."
Japanese-Americans from
And while Mr. Ganor, 64,
the West Coast spent most of
couldn't recognize the men's
the war. Fifty of them came
faces in Jerusalem, he was
to Jerusalem to meet with
Dachau survivors, to see if satisfied that they were the
ones who had rescued him.
they could find any they had
"I haven't cried since I was
saved.
a child," he said. "Not even
The Holocaust Oral Histo-
when I was in the camp s.
ry Project of San Francisco,
Even when my mother died
which organized the visit,
there I didn't cry. But now,
invited some Dachau sur-
when I was talking to these
vivors in Israel to the
men, I found I couldn't stop
Ramada Renaissance Hotel
crying."
to meet with the liberators.
Mr. Matsumura broke
But match-ups were almost
down repeatedly while Mr
impossible to arrange: the
Ganor was talking, but slow-
ex-soldiers and survivors
ly he regained control and
couldn't remember each
then seemed unable to stop
other's faces after 47 years,

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