Treatment Amid Chaos Peeled skin was dangling like seaweed from their arms Wet, red flesh exposed People were staggering with vacant eyes Extending their arms forward Like ghosts Suddenly they stumbled and fell Never to get up again —From The A-Bomb and Humanity, Hidankyo, 1997 A doctor and nurse treating injured people. The doctor is also injured. At Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Hajime Miyatake, Collection of Asahi Shimbun. A girl transported to Omura Naval Hospital with peeled and shredded skin dangling all over her body. Around August 10 or 11, Nagasaki. Photograph by Masao Shiotsuki, Courtesy of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Patients who could not be accommodated were laid in the shade outside, waiting for treatment. At Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Hajime Miyatake, Collection of Asahi Shimbun. Loved Ones I looked for my 14-year-old first-born son for 5 days, but could not find him. Hearing that dead bodies were being shipped out at the port, I rushed there and finally found his body. I managed to carry him to a junior high school, where I conducted cremation. It broke my heart to know that he was laid on a cold concrete floor and died without anyone giving him even a drop of water. How cruel it is that a mother had to cremate her own child to whom she had given birth. —Atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima Numerous victims of the atomic bomb were cremated near the Fukuya department store, a busy shopping area 800 meters from ground zero in Hiroshima. Bodies of soldiers and citizens continued to be brought there on stretchers to be cremated. August 12, 1945. Photograph by Hajime Miyatake, Collection of the Asahi Shimbun. In July 1952, seven years after the bombing, a great number of atomic bomb victim remains were uncovered across Hiroshima city. This photograph was taken in Saka-cho, where the remains of 60 people were found exposed to the elements and another 156 buried underground. This site was home to a first-aid station where many atomic bomb victims died. Excavations continue to this day. Photograph courtesy of the Chugoku Shimbun.
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