HIROSHIMA by John Hersey / Storytelling

Miss Toshiko Sasaki, the East Asia Tin Works clerk, who is not related to Dr. Sasaki, got up at three o’clock in the mor... Read more

On the train on the way into Hiroshima from the country, where he lived with his mother, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, the Red Cr... Read more

Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, of the Society of Jesus, was, on the morning of the explosion, in rather frail condition. The... Read more

In the days right before the bombing, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, being prosperous, hedonistic, and, at the time, not too busy, ... Read more

At nearly midnight, the night before the bomb was dropped, an announcer on the city’s radio station said that about two ... Read more

The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o’clock that morning. He was alone in the parsonage, because for some time his ... Read more

"A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why... Read more