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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code GE07-13-2
Creator NISHIDA Terumi
Age at the Time 33
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/7
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 1,800m
Location Ushita, Hiroshima Station areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 27×38
Description Wild dog eating a child's corpse
1,700m from the hypocenter, Nigitsu Shrine(Futabanosato, Higashi-ku )
August 7, 1945
Terumi Nishida (33 at time of bombing, 62 at time of drawing)
Explanation in picture
A wild dog was eating the corpse of a child killed by the bombing. Any parent witnessing this would forget her or his own burns and pain and go wild with rage. So pitiful.

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