The Foreign Service Journal, June 2013

64 JUNE 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL and his wife, Paula, of Atascadero, Calif.; a daughter-in-law, Michelle Hartz; grandchildren Dylan, Sasha and Joe; a niece Linda (and her husband, Ron) Bulmer and their children, Heather and Heidi and their families. It was Mrs. Burgess’s wish that any memorial gifts be donations to the Macular Degeneration Association at macular.org/howhelp.html. n Ariel S. Cardoso , 94, a retired Foreign Service staff employee and the spouse of FSO Mary Randall Carsoso, died peacefully on March 9 at his home in Washington, D.C. He was a Holocaust survivor. Mr. Cardoso was born in 1918 in Florence, Italy, to Jewish parents who later moved to Rome. In 1936, he was admitted to the pre-med program of the Liceo Scientifico of Rome. His ambition to be a physician was thwarted before he could enter medical school, when the fascist government enacted racial laws prohibiting Jews from attending public and private educational institu- tions. Following German occupation of Italy in late 1943, Mr. Cardoso joined the partisans, and the family went into hiding among Christian neighbors who refused to report them. He prepared escape plans should they learn of imminent arrest. For example, he wore an armband that “identified” him as a member of the Rome municipal mili- tary. After the liberation of Rome in 1944, Mr. Cardoso served with the British Eighth Army, simultaneously applying to British authorities to immigrate to Palestine to join the Jewish Brigade. He trained with the brigade at Sarafano and Ismailia, both in Egypt, before being sent to Italy and then to France, the Netherlands and Belgium. At war’s end, he helped the Haganah smuggle Jewish refugees into Palestine. He then returned to Palestine to fight in Israel’s War of Independence, serving as an ambulance driver and medical aide. In 1952, Embassy Tel Aviv hired Mr. Cardoso as a local employee. There he met his future wife, FSO Mary Randall of San Antonio, Texas. In 1955, when Mary was transferred to Rome, he resigned his position in Tel Aviv and followed her, working in Rome at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In the spring of 1960, he was instru- mental in organizing a community-wide Passover seder at the FAO that hun- dreds attended, including government officials, international personalities and tourists. The couple was married in Rome in 1960, and Mr. Cardoso became a U.S. citizen a year later. When his wife was transferred to the consulate in Enugu, Nigeria, Mr. Car- doso took a job with the U.S. Informa- tion Service there. They chose to serve as a couple in “hardship posts,” taking assignments in Africa, Indonesia and Europe. Mr. Cardoso became a regu- lar employee of the Foreign Service in 1967. During the next 12 years, he served in Zanzibar, Jakarta, Lesotho, Gambia, Budapest and East Berlin, the couple’s last duty station, where he was vice consul. In Budapest, he participated in the return to Hungary of the his- toric Crown of St. Stephen, leading to improved U.S.-Hungarian relations. The Cardosos retired to Washington, D.C., in 1979. Family and friends remember Mr. Cardoso as a man of quiet dignity and gentlemanly bearing, with a keen mind and a concern for others. He loved the arts, especially opera and ballet. He enjoyed travel, especially the many cruises the couple took on the great rivers of Europe, experiencing historic towns, cathedrals and galleries, and visiting Italy. He also enjoyed a good game of Scrabble, despite English not being his first language, and was an avid reader of world news. He spoke little of his wartime experiences, but took great pride in his service to the United States and Israel. Mr. Cardoso is survived by his wife, Mary, and several nephews and nieces. Contributions in his memory may be made to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, of which he was a charter member. n Carolina Handall, 33, the wife of USAID FSO Daniel Sanchez-Busta- mante, died on March 4 in Fairfax, Va., of pancreatic cancer. Ms. Handall was born on Oct. 22, 1979, in La Paz, Bolivia, of Bolivian par- ents. After studying at the Catholic Uni- versity of Bolivia in La Paz, she attended the University of Arizona, where she received her bachelor’s degree in economics in 2001. She received her master’s degree in development eco- nomics at the University of Maryland in 2005, and became a U.S. citizen in that same year. In 2003, Carolina Handall married Daniel Sanchez-Bustamante. Mr. San- chez-Bustamante, who had worked for USAID since 2000, joined the Foreign Service in 2003. The couple undertook three tours overseas, the first in 2005 to San Salvador, where their daughter Luciana was born. In 2007 they were posted to Quito, where their second daughter, Christina, was born in 2009. They were assigned to Accra in 2011.