HIROSHIMA SURVIVORS

TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.