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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code NG303-01
Creator Hideko Matsumoto
Age at the Time 15
Donor
Date of the Scene August 6 or 7, 1945
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 800m
Location Tokaichi, Nakahiro areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 27.2×39.2
Description Calling for parents, begging for water, bodies piled on the riverside
Tenmagawa River
August 6 or 7, 1945
Hideko Matsumoto
Explanation in picture
The A-bomb flash burned off their clothes and deep into the skin. Calling for parents, begging for water, victims arrived at the river, ran out of strength, fell onto each other and stopped moving.
Some were lifted by the rising tide, and the river filled with corpses swollen bright red and gruesome.

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