Kono Kiyomi

Age at the time of bombing: 14
Date of the scene:
1945/8/7
Distance from hypocenter:
1,500 m
Location:
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, Kokutaiji, Senda areas

Dimension: 27 × 38 cm

On the circular flowerbed in front of the entrance to the Red Cross Hospital, corpses of first and second-year junior high students had been piled on each other like lumber. They had no sign of injury or burn. Their nametags read “Second Hiroshima Junior.”

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