A-bomb victim’s dress meant to be buried brought to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum instead

Video footage taken on July 17 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a curator drawing out and unwrapping a one-piece dress kept in the museum’s archive. The dress, with a large section in the back burned off belonged to a 21-year-old victim of the atomic bombing of the city whose mother saved the item, writing instructions on its department store wrapping that it be placed in her coffin at her death. However a stepdchild instead brought the dress to the museum 16 days after the mother passed away in 1974. The curator who received the dress was herself young at 23 years of age at the time.
Video footage taken on July 17 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a curator drawing out and unwrapping a one-piece dress kept in the museum’s archive. The dress, with a large section in the back burned off belonged to a 21-year-old victim of the atomic bombing of the city whose mother saved the item, writing instructions on its department store wrapping that it be placed in her coffin at her death. However a stepdchild instead brought the dress to the museum 16 days after the mother passed away in 1974. The curator who received the dress was herself young at 23 years of age at the time.
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Editorial #:
1166546461
Collection:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Date created:
30 July, 2019
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Clip length:
00:01:04:07
Location:
Hiroshima, Japan
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QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG HD 1920x1080 29.97p
Source:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Object name:
20190802a-bombvictimsdress.mov