"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 4

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Pine Tree
Sumiyoshi Shrine, 1,400 meters from the hypocenter.

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Miss. Fumiko Habu
age: 41; occupation: unemployed; family: none
<at that time> age: 8; in a streetcar (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); mother died.

"A streetcar conductor came to us and said he would take ou to Koi in his streetcar. So I got on with my friend. I was sticking my head out of the driver's window. And just when we came in front of the Red Cross Hospital..." (written at age 14)

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Kengo Futagawa (59 at the time) was crossing the Kannon Bridge (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) by bicycle on his way to do fire prevention work. He jumped into the river, terribly burned. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.

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