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Life@UCF SpringDr. Kimiko AkitaFebruary 5, 2013
The American Schindler and The Japanese Schindler:
Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) and
Sempo (Chiune) Sugihara (1900-1986)
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Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887-1950) Born in Rosita, Colorado, a mining
town. Worked way through college. A water rights attorney. State’s U.S.
Attorney in Hoover administration during Prohibition. Elected Colorado governor in 1939. Turned down chance to run as VP with Wendell Willkie in 1940.
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Governor 1939-43: Restored state’s finances without increasing budget. Rising GOP star, potential presidential candidate.
Dec. 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor begins Pacific War. About 70% (93,000) of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living on West Coast. Anti-Japanese sentiment rises in U.S.
1942: Roosevelt declares martial law. “No Japs/Yellow Perils Wanted.” 10 internment camps in desolate places held 123,200 Japanese-Americans. 70% were born in U.S.
1942-45: Camp Amache, 350 km from Denver; held 7,500 Japanese-Americans.
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Carr said: “That’s wrong! They’re U.S. citizens.” Opened Colorado to 3,500 Japanese-American evacuees from West Coast.
Principle: Denying anyone’s constitutional rights means denying rights of all Americans.
Carr hired Mitchie Terasaki, 92, as civil servant and another Japanese-American as nanny.
Results: Threats. “We will kill all Japs.” “Don’t allow Japs into Colorado.” Cost Carr his political career. Served only one term as governor. Lost Senate race in 1942.
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Drafted to run for governor in 1950. Won GOP primary but died a few days later.
Carr’s bust erected in Sakura Square in1976.
Section of U.S. Route 285 and C-480 named Ralph Carr Memorial Highway in 2008.
New Colorado state judicial complex named Ralph L. Carr Justice Center.
Japanese American Citizens League created award in his honor in 2012.
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Sempo Sugihara (1900-1986) Born: Gifu, Japan. Samurai family. Father, a medical doctor, stationed in Korea.
Wanted Sempo to become doctor, but Sempo rebelled. Earned scholarship and studied in China; learned fluency in Russian. 1924: Secretary of Foreign Ministry; 1932: Diplomat in Manchuria. (Russian wife 1924-35) Became Christian in 1935. Diplomat to Finland in 1937. Became Japanese consulate general in Lithuania in 1939.
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1939: German-Soviet Treaty. Russia occupied Lithuania.
1940: Polish Jews escaped into Lithuania. Sought visas to Dutch colony of Curacao.
Japanese denied Sugihara’s requests for transit visas for Jews. Disobeyed government; issued at least 2,139 transit visas.
1941: Nazis attack Lithuania; Russians retreat. 196,000 of 208,000 Lithuanian Jews killed.
1944: Soviets reclaimed Lithuania.
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1946: Sugihara working in Europe. 1946-47: Imprisoned by Soviets. 1968: B. Gehashra Nishri, Jewish transit VISA
receiver, reunited with Sugihara. 1985: Becomes only Japanese to receive
Israel’s “Righteous Among the Nations” award.
2000: Japanese officially apologized to Sugihara family, noting humanitarianism.
2005: “Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness.” 2011: tsunami/earthquake. U.S. Jewish
Orthodox Union said time to return favor for Sugihara’s saving 6,000 Jews.
2012: Boca Raton ceremony honors Sugihara.
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Solly Ganor: Lithuanian holocaust survivor. Received visa from Sugihara. Rescued by nisei Allied soldier Clarence Matsumura. Ganor
kept his experience secret until 1992. Wrote “Light One Candle” (1995). I met and wrote about Ganor in 1996. 1911: 2 of grandfather’s sisters migratedto Brazil. During WWII, Japanese-Brazilianssent to internment camps in U.S. I metdistant Brazilian relative in Japan in 1995.
My personal experience
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“Extraordinary people whodescribed themselves as ordinary.”
— Adam Schrager Carr: Rediscovered by Schrager (2008) Sugihara: Rediscovered by Nishri (1968)
They embraced the diversity of humanity.“We are the people of the U.S.
If we are sent to a prison because ofwhere our ancestors are from,
we will lose our rights.”They set aside self-interest, retained conscience.
Courage to stand up for principle.“Life is to suffer, to survive, and to find a meaning in the suffering, and each must find out a purpose in life
for himself.”— Viktor Frankl