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Keeping the stories of Hiroshima alive 75 years after bombing

by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 6 Aug 2020, 4m:27s

Seventy-five years after the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, there are fewer survivors left to talk about their experience, but a new generation has found a way to keep those memories alive.

A survivor’s story in animation

by CBBC Newsround on 4 Aug 2015, 5m:2s

Bun Hashizume was 14 years old and lived in Japan, when a nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, at the end of the Second World War. She’s now 84 and has told CBBC Newsround the inspiring story of her life before and after that devastating and world-changing event.

This animation contains some sad moments which you might find upsetting. You can find out more about what happened in Japan here on the Newsround website.

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor

by CNN on 5 August 2015, 2m:53s

Seventy years ago Chisako Takeoka survived the world’s first attack with an atomic bomb. She has traveled the world sharing the horrors of her experience. Ivan Watson has her story.

Hiroshima: A survivor tells her story

By ITV News, 27 May 2016 2m:29s

Shows US President Obama visiting Hiroshima. Also shows Yoshiko Kajimoto who was aged 14 and working in a Hiroshima munitions factory when the atomic bomb was dropped on the morning of August 6, 1945.

Harrowing Accounts from Hiroshima Survivors

By Smithsonian Channel on 20 August 2015: 4m:19s

After an American B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the explosion instantly killed tens of thousands of people and left many wounded. These survivors recount the horrific aftermath.

Dropping The Bomb – Hiroshima

By BBC Studios on 14 March 2017: 4m:1s

Hear first-hand accounts from the air and ground, re-telling every memory from the day the world first witnessed the horrors of atomic warfare.

Hiroshima Survivors Tell of the First Atomic Attack

By University of California Television on 21 May 2009: 4m:26s

Two Hibakusha (survivors of Japan’s atomic bomb attacks) describe their experiences surviving the blast near ground zero and its terrible aftermath in Hiroshima.