Hiroshima
“I slowly crawled out, the building was on fire. I saw two more girls come out. All the other girls were burned alive. Even though it was morning it was so dark, as if it were dusk. It was spooky. And in the darkness, as my eyes adjusted, I could see that everything had been destroyed. A soldier told us to reach the top of the hill, outside the city. I could see objects moving in the dark. As they approached I could see the figures of apparently human beings, but who did not look like us. They looked like ghosts. Their hair was standing on end, I don't know why, and their eyes were swollen from the burns. Some people had their eyes bulging. Some held their eyeballs in their hands. Nobody ran. Nobody screamed. Everything was silent, everything was still. All you could hear was just the whisper 'water, water'. How can one describe hell on earth?”.
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor
