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ID Code 3102-0101
Artifact Name Torn skirt
Donor Shizuko Yamane
Receiving Date 2005/07/26
Size (W×H×D) (mm) 600×500
Distance from the Hypocenter(m) 1350
Number 1
Location Moto-machi, Hakushima areas
Description The donor's older sister Tomie Yamane (then, 4) was exposed with her grandparents when the three of them were seeing off a customer. Tomie had been entrusted to her grandparents when her parents went to China. Her parents learned about the deaths of the three when they finally returned from China in 1946. The skirt Tomie wore at the time of the bombing was ragged and torn.

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