Remembering Hiroshima

Remembering Hiroshima…
80 years on

‘The sound of an aeroplane…’
‘All of a sudden, I saw a whitish-pink flash’
‘It was like I’d looked right at the sun’
‘A huge column of white smoke climbed high up in the air’
‘Almost every building was destroyed and in flames’
‘It was hell on earth’

To mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, a UH project based on eye-witness accounts from children who survived the atomic blast.

These testimonies are found in the 1951 publication, ‘Children of Hiroshima’, put together by Professor Arata Osada, a survivor of the bombing.

You can help commemorate the events of August 6th 1945 via creative presentations of the ‘Children of Hiroshima’ material.

In the autumn of 2025, there will be an opportunity at the University of Hertfordshire to display or perform what you produce.

Your work will also feature on the university’s Heritage Hub webpages

Bring these extraordinary individual stories alive with your creative imagination. You will be given selections of material from Children of Hiroshima. These cover the testimony of children from four school age-group categories. This material offers a narrative of the events on the day of the bombing and the aftermath in the following days, weeks and months. Across a span of between 15 and 30 minutes, how can you enhance the impact of these vivid eye-witness Hiroshima stories?

For more information contact:
Andrew Green, Senior Research Fellow, unihertsoh@yahoo.co.uk