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Section introducing artifacts housed in the Museum
"I want to see my mother"
Location Peace Memorial Museum, East Building, 1st floor, Special Exhibition Room
Period Around one year from July 12, 2018
Exhibits 10 artifacts including work gloves
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In the section introducing artifacts housed in the Museum, a number of artifacts have been selected from the approximately 20,000 items at the Museum, and displayed according to different themes.
On August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb turned the city of Hiroshima to ruins in an instant.
Many people died painful deaths after being burned and exposed to huge amounts of radiation.
Parents left their beloved children behind and passed away worrying about their children and their children's future.
The children left behind lost the pillars of support that they could depend upon, left in confusion and overwhelmed with sadness.
Those children who survived are now older than their parents were when they died.
Nonetheless, even now after time has passed, the memory of their parents is imprinted in the hearts of those children, together with a deep sense of loss.
In this exhibition are displayed mainly objects owned by mothers, together with the words of their bereaved family members.
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Mother Toshiko (aged 34 at time
of death) with eldest daughter
Makiko (aged 7 at the time)
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The gloves that Toshiko was wearing when the bomb was dropped
(Donated by Takayuki Takagi)
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"I heard that while my mother was lying down, she would not let go of my younger sister Makiko, to the
extent that the festering wounds from the burns that they both suffered got stuck together.
And I heard
that until the moment she died she was crying 'Take a photo! (to leave behind)' for me, who could not
see her ever again because I had been evacuated to the countryside."
(as told by the second son Yasuyuki)
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