“As I continued to search for my wife along the banks of the river, I saw more corpses at the foot of a bridge, damming the water.”\u00a0 (Accountant)<\/em><\/p>\n “We went up the slope of the hill at Koi and looked around, there were indeed some students from Prefectural Girls’ High there but my sister was nowhere to be seen. “A little farther on there was a woman lying with a big log fallen across her legs so that she couldn’t get away. Culled from:\u00a0Eye-Witness Hiroshima<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/e711807c-a5f9-4a0d-7691-0d0ef31c6d48.jpg\")
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\nHiroshima victim<\/em><\/p>\n
\n“The next day we hunted for her in the same way, far and wide.\u00a0 The students at the river’s edge who yesterday had been rather hopeful – today they could not say a word and just looked at us in appealing recognition.\u00a0 Many of them who had still been alive yesterday were now dead.\u00a0 As we were about to leave there, they said in small, faint voices, ‘Sayonara…’
\n“It was hard for us to leave them.\u00a0 The next day when we went there those students were all dead.” (Schoolgirl)<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHiroshima Aftermath<\/em><\/p>\n
\n“When father saw that he shouted, ‘Please come and help!”
\n“But not a single person came to help.\u00a0 They were all too intent on saving themselves.
\n“Finally father lost his patience, and shouting, ‘Are you all Japanese or not?’, he took a rusty saw and cut off her leg and rescued her.” (Schoolgirl)<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Weegee Du Jour!<\/h3>\n