"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 8

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Train Depot, 2,000 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mrs. Yuriko Hayashi
age: 42; occupation: housewife; family: husband and two children
<at that time> age: 9; at home (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); parents and two brothers injured.

"The previous evening, Mother made a dress for me. And on the morning of August 6, Mother was sewing buttons on the dress so that I could wear it to school." (written at age 15)

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Hair
Hiroko Yamashita (18 at the time) was at home. 800 meters from the hypocenter. She and her six-year-old brother were caught under the house as it collapsed. After rescuing her brother, she sought refuge elsewhere in the fire-ravaged town. On August 21, her younger brother died. Around August 25, when her mother combed her hair, all of it fell out with only three strokes.

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