| Description |
Kazuhiko Sasaki (then, 12) was a first-year student at First Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School. He was exposed in his school building waiting to go to his demolition worksite. His mother, Ayako, searched desperately and found his body on the morning of the 8th and cremated it herself. Several days later, his younger sister Fumiko returned with their mother to the place where he had been cremated and found this shoe in the rubble. It has his name on it. The shoe had a hole in it, but Kazuhiko covered it inside with thick paper and continued to wear it. |
