She was only eight when she saw people with their skin peeling off, faces swollen beyond recognition, stumbling through a city in flames. For Keiko Ogura, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the morning of 6 August 1945 was the day her childhood ended.
She remembers the moment the bomb fell: Hiroshima flattened in an instant, as if a giant had stomped the city into the ground. “Buildings were crushed, and fires broke out everywhere. That night, Hiroshima burned. The entire city kept burning through the night.”
