⟳ Репост от Jasmine W.

Read John Hersey’s powerful, unforgettable August 1946 New Yorker article, “Hiroshima,” describing the horrific devastation of the city as recounted by six survivors: a clerk, a doctor, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, a surgeon, and a Methodist pastor—the first unvarnished account of the bombing.

HiroshimaA hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.www.newyorker.com