YAMADA Ikue

A mother fled the flames with her child in her arms.

Year of Birth: 1933 \ Age at time of blast: 12 \ Age when image created: 41

KOJIRI Tsutomu

Picking up maggots that appeared in the wounds.

Year of Birth: 1940 \ Age at time of blast: 4 \ Age when image created: 34

KOJIRI Tsutomu

Shrine gate and the Hiroshima Dome.

Year of Birth: 1940 \ Age at time of blast: 4 \ Age when image created: 34

KOJIRI Tsutomu

A sitting half-naked woman.

Year of Birth: 1940 \ Age at time of blast: 4 \ Age when image created: 34

Date of image depicted: 1945/8/7

KANEMASU Hiroko

At Ninoshima Elementary School a moment after the blast.

Year of Birth: 1938 \ Age at time of blast: 7 \ Age when image created: 37

FUJIMOTO Sachiko

A young pregnant woman and children fleeing near Koi.

Year of Birth: 1933 \ Age at time of blast: 11 \ Age when image created: 40

HARADA Haruo

Parachute and fireball of the bomb.

Year of Birth: 1935 \ Age at time of blast: 10 \ Age when image created: 40

ISHIBASHI Shinko

Heaped up corpses. Most people are dead with their eyes open.

Year of Birth: 1938 \ Age at time of blast: 6 \ Age when image created: 35

TAKUMEI Kasumi

Dead body of a U.S. POW tied to a bridge rail.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 45

AMANO Katsuko

Soldiers cremating corpses on a galvanized iron sheet.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 44

TAKAHASHI Akihiro

Running away with a friend. My friend, whose feet were burned, crawled across the wooden bridge over Ota River.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 42

TASAKA Hajime

A severely burned mother and child asked passersby for water.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 45

TAKEDA Hatsue

Half-naked people running on a street, their hair burned and frizzled.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 44

TAKEDA Hatsue

Female students at Nukushina Elementary School. Scene from the window is the burning city of Hiroshima.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 44

ARIKI Ayako

Students at a relief station died calling for their mothers and fathers.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 43

ARIKI Ayako

Lines of survivors fleeing in silence at Ochigodao Peak.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 43

SUGA Yoko

People jumped into the river to escape the tremendous heat of the fire, and many drowned and were swept away.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 43

TAKUMEI Kasumi

Corpses piled up in a water tank.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 45

YOSHIMOTO Satoshi

Cremating family members.

Year of Birth: 1932 \ Age at time of blast: 13 \ Age when image created: 41

USAGAWA Yoshitaka

An infant clinging to its dead mother.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 43

YAMAMOTO Setsuko

Immediately after the explosion, I walked over the injured people to escape from a streetcar.

Year of Birth: 1931 \ Age at time of blast: 14 \ Age when image created: 43

IWAMOTO Atsuko

People walking along the river. Sergeant Fumoto. Corpses floating in the river.

Year of Birth: 1932 \ Age at time of blast: 13 \ Age when image created: 42

FUJIMOTO Jinichi

A child burned raw.

Year of Birth: 1930 \ Age at time of blast: 15 \ Age when image created: 44

YOSHIMOTO Satoshi

Cremating family members.

Year of Birth: 1932 \ Age at time of blast: 13 \ Age when image created: 41

ISHIKAWA Fumie

Dead pupils on the verandah of an elementary school. One dead boy was standing and leaning on an umbrella shelf.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 16 \ Age when image created: 46

YAMASHITA Masato

August 31: My younger brother who died vomiting blood. His nose was bleeding, and his hair had fallen out. There were small red spots all over his body.

Year of Birth: 1924 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 50

YAMADA Sumako

In a split second strange rings of lights spread over my head.

Year of Birth: 1924 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 49

YAMASHITA Masato

A sea of fire filled with the moans of people pinned under their collapsed houses.

Year of Birth: 1924 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 50

ISHIKAWA Fumie

Loading corpses on a hand-drawn cart.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 16 \ Age when image created: 46

SHUNK Scott

English translation of description is coming

Year of Birth: 1927 \ Age at time of blast: 18 \ Age when image created: 47

YAMASHITA Masato

Charred body of a four or five-year-old child pointing to the sky.

Year of Birth: 1924 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 49

TAKAKURA Akiko

A woman driven by unbearable thirst trying to catch black raindrops in her mouth.

Year of Birth: 1925 \ Age at time of blast: 19 \ Age when image created: 49

KIHARA Toshiko

As we fearfully crossed a railroad bridge, my two borthers and I saw bloated red, blue, green, and purple corpses floating.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 17 \ Age when image created: 47

KIHARA Toshiko

People who died in the water tank. Suffering middle-school students. A horse in agony. A mother and child.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 17 \ Age when image created: 47

KIHARA Toshiko

Swollen corpses turned blue, red and purple.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 17 \ Age when image created: 47

Date of image depicted: 1945/8/8

MICHITSUJI Yoshiko

I ran toward my house through a sea of flames.

Year of Birth: 1925 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 49

YAMAGATA Yasuko

One day later: Corpses in a water tank. The charred body of a mother holding a baby, still standing as if in flight.

Year of Birth: 1928 \ Age at time of blast: 17 \ Age when image created: 46

IKEGAME Haruo

People fleeing toward Yoshijima airport. Their clothes were torn, and their bodies were burned red, their skin was peeling off and hanging down.

Year of Birth: 1925 \ Age at time of blast: 20 \ Age when image created: 50

SUMIMOTO Sueko

Dead students about 14 or 15 years old in the river, and mothers calling their names.

Year of Birth: 1907 \ Age at time of blast: 37 \ Age when image created: 67

MUNEKIYO Eiichi

A child, covering himself with a futon, in front of a house which was burning down screaming “Mother, it’s too hot!” / Approx. 1.3 kilometers from the hypocenter / August 6, 1945, around 11:00 a.m. / Eiichi Munekiyo

Year of Birth: 1912 \ Age at time of blast: 33 \ Age when image created: 62

TANIMINE Fusataro

A junior high school student was exposed to the bomb while demolishing buildings for a firebreak. He was taken home by his teacher. His skin had peeled off and hung down. He died that night.

Year of Birth: 1899 \ Age at time of blast: 45 \ Age when image created: 75

ARAKI Akira

His lower leg cut off, a junior high student cries, "Please help me."

Year of Birth: 1908 \ Age at time of blast: 37 \ Age when image created: 66

YAMANE Hisato

Corpses of young students in the the Shin-Ohashi Bridge area.

Year of Birth: 1907 \ Age at time of blast: 38 \ Age when image created: 68

MATSUMURO Kazuo

A mother looking for a place to cremate her dead child.

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 61

ISHIZU Kazuhiro

Survivors burned over their whole bodies flee the city.

Year of Birth: 1908 \ Age at time of blast: 37 \ Age when image created: 66

TANIMOTO Hatsuto

Charred bodies of a parent and child whose gender could not be distinuished.

Year of Birth: 1904 \ Age at time of blast: 41 \ Age when image created: 71

INOUE Tadao

A boy around three-years-old, whose body was burned all over, eating a red tomato.

Year of Birth: 1909 \ Age at time of blast: 35 \ Age when image created: 64

ICHIDA Yuji

Dead? A mother holding her child. Nearby was a dead cow.

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 61

KAWAKAMI Yoshizo

Survivors with white ointments applied to their burns. A child is trying to nurse at the breast of its severely injured mother.

Year of Birth: 1906 \ Age at time of blast: 39 \ Age when image created: 67

KIMURA Sadako

A fleeing schoolgirl.

Year of Birth: 1900 \ Age at time of blast: 45 \ Age when image created: 74

TAGUCHI Mitsuko

Charred body of a mother who died while trying to protect her child. Her hair stands on end.

Year of Birth: 1915 \ Age at time of blast: 30 \ Age when image created: 60

YAMABE Shoji

Ruins of a barber shop. A skelton remained sitting on a chair.

Year of Birth: 1903 \ Age at time of blast: 42 \ Age when image created: 71

MIYAJI Tomiko

Black rain started falling. Some drank water from a puddle. Others opened their mouths wide to catch the raindrops.

Year of Birth: 1911 \ Age at time of blast: 34 \ Age when image created: 64

YOKOYAMA Yoshihisa

Night scene of cremating the dead at the riverbed.

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 62

NAKANO Kenichi

A hell-like city in a sea of fire.

Year of Birth: 1898 \ Age at time of blast: 47 \ Age when image created: 76

YOSHIDA Hiromu

A dead horse whose eyes were popped out by the explosion.

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 31 \ Age when image created: 60

HORIKOSHI Susumu

Growing mushroom cloud, glittering silver under the mid-summer sun.

Year of Birth: 1938 \ Age at time of blast: 6 \ Age when image created: 36

MATSUMURO Kazuo

A woman whose burned skin had peeled off and was hanging down.

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 61

MURAKAMI Misako

Fleeing female students whose whole bodies were burned.

Year of Birth: 1900 \ Age at time of blast: 45 \ Age when image created: 75

TAMURA Shigemasa

In front of the Prefecture Hospital, people stood in a long line waiting for treatment for their burns. Treated with medicine that looked like white paint, they turned white all over. Everyone died asking for water.

Year of Birth: 1938 \ Age at time of blast: 6 \ Age when image created: 36

MICHIDA Yoshie

Jumping into the river to escape the flames, people drowned.

Year of Birth: 1915 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 62

FUJISE Asako

Seen from Hijiyama Hill, the city was a bright red burning Hell.

Year of Birth: 1923 \ Age at time of blast: 22 \ Age when image created: 51

NAKANO Kenichi

There was one man still alive in the streetcar, and he asked for water.

Year of Birth: 1898 \ Age at time of blast: 47 \ Age when image created: 76

YAMASHITA Masao

Placing names on the injured before death at Honkawa Elementary School.

Year of Birth: 1909 \ Age at time of blast: 36 \ Age Horrorshima : Aug 5th 1945 when image created: 66

KIYOYOSHI Goro

One hour after the explosion: From a hill on the outskirts, we looked out over the city engulfed in flames.

Year of Birth: 1897 \ Age at time of blast: 48 \ Age when image created: 76

KOBAYASHI Masao

They fled with their arms raised in front like a procession of ghosts.

Year of Birth: 1899 \ Age at time of blast: 45 \ Age when image created: 74

MATSUMURO Kazuo

Year of Birth: 1913 \ Age at time of blast: 32 \ Age when image created: 61

Date of image depicted: 1945/8/6

HARA Yoshimi

Transferring the wounded to Otake by boat. Not enough care was provided, and nothing could be done under artillery fire by enemy planes.

Year of Birth: 1919 \ Age at time of blast: 26 \ Age when image created: 55

OGAWA Sagami

Corpses in the water tank were swollen and red while those around it were charred and shrunken.

Year of Birth: 1917 \ Age at time of blast: 28 \ Age when image created: 57

TAKAHARA Yoshio

My dead friends. They became bald. Their gums and fingertips bled, and they died.

Year of Birth: 1911 \ Age at time of blast: 34 \ Age when image created: 63