talking about what he and the other Japanese- American soldiers of the 552nd had found at Dachau. "We had been chasing the Germans for three weeks and had been liberating POW and labor camps. But all of a sudden we came into Dachau. It had snowed the day before, and there was a white mound of snow on the round. Then I looked closer and saw that in the mound there were layers and layers of dead prisoners in striped clothes. We learned later that these were Jews. "We didn't find any ards, any authorities in the camp, and only a few prisoners. We asked people in the town where everybody had gone, and they said the prisoners had been marched down the road a few days ago. So we went after them, and then we began seeing people lying dead on the side of the road, shot or attacked by dogs, and we saw other people leaning against trees who looked like they were dying. "They were starving to death. I was holding them in my arms, and saying, `Please help me,' because I didn't have any food or med- icine to give them. We took care of over 1,000 people, nd brought them into a barn, but didn't save too any of them." Mr. Matsumura, who lives in San Gabriel, just east of Los Angeles, said that since returning from the war, he has spoken with several Dachau survivors in the Los geles area, trying to find any who had been rescued by his unit, trying to deter- mine, "Did we do anything _ for these people?" In Mr. Ganor, Mr. Matsumura has finally found positive, living vidence. "This," he said, "is what I've been looking for for 47 years." The Japanese-American soldiers were ordered by their commanders never to discuss what they found at Dachau, on penalty of court- martial. But 11 years ago, Eric Saul, a San Franciscan researching the Japanese- American community, was told by one of his subjects about the 552nd Field Ar- tillery's part in the libera- ion of Dachau. "At first I didn't believe it," Mr. Saul said. But he began hearing more stories, and then, working with the olocaust Oral History Pro- ject, he found four Ameri- ans who said they had been rescued from Dachau by Japanese-American soldiers. Gradually the connections were made and the story was no longer a secret. The photographs the soldiers took of the libera- tion are now on display at Yad Vashem, Israel's na- tional Holocaust museum. The exhibit also tells the story of the Japanese- American Army units of WWII — the 552nd, the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They had 18,000 soldiers, about half of whom came out of the internment camps, where they were classified 4-C, "enemy aliens." The U.S. Congressional Record said that together, these soldiers became "the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the United States." The units also had the highest casualty rate of the war — 314 percent — meaning their soldiers had to be replaced over three times due to death or injury. President Harry Truman said of them:_ "You fought not only the enemy but you fought prejudice, and you won." Mr. Truman, speak- ing about prejudice, prob- ably had no idea of what these soldiers had done at Dachau. One of the camp survivors in Jerusalem was Janina Cywinska, a Warsaw Catholic taken to Dachau. "I thought, 'Oh, now the Japanese are going to kill us.' And I didn't care anymore. I said, 'Just get it over with.' He tried to con- vince me he was an Ameri- can soldier, but I said American soldiers have blue eyes and white skin. We went back and forth, and finally he dropped to his knees, crying, and bowed forward to me several times. He said, 'I tell you, in the name of my God and your God, that we are your lib- erators, and you are free.' 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