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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code GE03-25
Creator OKAZAKI Hidehiko
Age at the Time 18
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/9
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 800m
Location Tokaichi, Nakahiro areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 27×38
Description A row of girl students' bodies
Drawing / Hidehiko Okazaki
August 9, 1945 Approx. 800m from the hypocenter Near Dohashi
In Dohashi, nearly 1,800 students from First Hiroshima Prefectural Girls High School, Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School, Misasa Elementary School, and other schools joined a volunteer citizens corps recruited from neighborhood associations and various workplaces in building demolition. About 80 percent of the students were dead or missing.

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