Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
New Arrivals Exhibit
| Dates: | March 26, 2021 - April 3, 2022 (tentative) |
| Venue: | East Building B1, Special Exhibition Room, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum |
| Items: | 176 atomic bomb artifacts donated in fiscal year 2019 |
With 76 years having passed since the end of the war, it has become increasingly difficult to collect A-bomb artifacts and detailed information related to them. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum will continue to convey the various damage caused by the atomic bombing, to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons. We would appreciate your cooperation in donating the A-bomb artifacts to the museum.
〔Left〕Lunch box left by Hideo Yamane (then 12) (Donated by Yoshie Yamane)
Hideo Yamane was a mobilized student working at a building demolition work site (700m from the hypocenter) when he was exposed to the atomic bomb.
Starting the next day, his mother, Hatsue (then 37), searched at camps throughout the city every day, but was never able to find Hideo.
A few days after they held a funeral without his body, a neighbor who had also been searching for missing family members happened to find Hideo's school uniform and delivered it to his mother.
Hatsue found his lunch box among the burnt remains of the building demolition work site. Although Hideo's name was not on the lunch box, she was convinced that it was his because of the arrangement of the remaining contents, so she took it home.
〔Right〕Hideo (back row, left) and his mother (back row, right) and sisters.
June 23, 1941, on the occasion of his mother Hatsue's birthday. (Donated by Yoshie Yamane)
Lunch box left by Hideo Yamane (then 12) (Donated by Yoshie Yamane)
Hideo Yamane was a mobilized student working at a building demolition work site (700m from the hypocenter) when he was exposed to the atomic bomb.
Starting the next day, his mother, Hatsue (then 37), searched at camps throughout the city every day, but was never able to find Hideo.
A few days after they held a funeral without his body, a neighbor who had also been searching for missing family members happened to find Hideo's school uniform and delivered it to his mother.
Hatsue found his lunch box among the burnt remains of the building demolition work site. Although Hideo's name was not on the lunch box, she was convinced that it was his because of the arrangement of the remaining contents, so she took it home.
Hideo (back row, left) and his mother (back row, right) and sisters.
June 23, 1941, on the occasion of his mother Hatsue's birthday. (Donated by Yoshie Yamane)
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