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Cremation site near Honkawa National Elementary School

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ID Code TKAWAMOTO0018
Title Cremation site near Honkawa National Elementary School
Photographer Toshio Kawamoto
Date 16657
Location Kajiya-cho
Distance from hypocenter 450meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description This photo appears to show the south of Honkawa National Elementary School, located 410 meters from the hypocenter. The school served as a first-aid station, and many people were cremated in the schoolyard. Dead bodies in the neighborhood were collected and cremated in the burned ruins of temples near the school, too.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in the “Peace Database” of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website,The photo collection “The Moment of Hiroshima’s Destruction”
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