Before the bombing, Dr. Fujii is a physician with compassion and concern for his patients and workers..
Miss Toshiko Sasaki A twenty-year-old personnel department clerk for the East Asia Tin Works. On August 6, 1945, she is at work.
When the bomb explodes, she is buried in the debris and her leg is crushed under heavy bookcases. She survives, raises her siblings, and converts to Catholicism, becoming a nun.
Dr. Masakazu Fujii Prosperous and fifty years old, he owns a single-doctor hospital overlooking the Kyo River.
After the bomb explodes, he finds himself in the river, suspended between two timbers, but with his head above water. He helps many people despite his injuries. He restores a modest medical practice and eventually accompanies Japanese survivors when they have plastic surgery in the U.S.
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John Hersey's 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.
Hatsuyo Nakamura A widow of a tailor, Isawa, who was killed in the war, she has had a hard life, taking in piecework to support three children. When the bomb is dropped that morning, she and her children are buried under debris in their house.
She leads her children to Asano Park, wh