Hiroshima Generations: The memory passed on

Our coverage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath.With support from the <a href="http://us-jf.org/">United States-Japan Foundation</a> and the <a href="http://www.nsquarecollaborative.org/">N Square Collaborative</a>.

A-bomb survivors: My mom and her mother Jettie on board the ship Oranje, which had been a hospital vessel during the war. They were on the boat’s first post-war civilian transport, making the crossing here from Java to Melbourne, Australia in November 194

The Bomb saved my mom

August 4, 2015Conflict

When the first of the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Marco Werman’s mother was in a WWII prison camp in Indonesia. And, were it not for the bombs, his mom might not have survived the camp.

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