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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code GE18-20
Creator Chie Harada
Age at the Time 18
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/6
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 800m
Location Moto-machi, Hakushima areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 38.5×53.5
Description A-bomb Drawings by Survivors
[Artist's comments]Summarized
A scene not of this world
It is so horrible to write or speak of what these eyes saw, what these hands and body touched, I have avoided it for 30 years. As I draw now, I smell the blood. I see the wretched figures with burnt skin so red and flayed I cannot tell if they are male or female. Those faces, skin melted off and contorted by terror, were not of this world.
August 6, 9:00 a.m.
800m / on the way from Hatchobori to Shukkeien Garden
Chie Harada

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