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A-bomb Drawings by Survivors

ID Code NG392-02
Creator Fumiaki Kajiya
Age at the Time 6
Donor
Date of the Scene 1945/8/6
Distance from the Hypocenter (m) 1,800m
Location Ushita, Hiroshima Station areas
Size (H×W) (cm) 39.5×54.4
Description Victims pouring like an avalanche toward the river
1,800 m from the hypocenter, Nigitsujinja Shrine (Futabanosato)
August 6, 1945
Fumiaki Kajiya (6 at the time of the bombing, 63 when he drew this picture)
Explanation in picture
With flames rising from houses pursuing them, crowds of people poured down like an avalanche over the stone steps to the river on the other side. A stream of corpses flowed down the river.

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