‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima
2 sources·Updated July 25, 2026
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- Guardian UK·1d ago‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima
In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child • ‘I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: read an interview with Tanimoto’s daughter Koko Kondo Most of the people of Hiroshima had neither…
Read at Guardian UK → - Guardian AU Headlines·1d ago‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness
On that fateful day in 1945, Kondo was just a baby in her mother’s arms. She talks about her father’s newly discovered eye-witness account of the aftermath – and why she decided to continue his work as a peace campaigner • ‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: read…
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