Chugoku Shimbun Peace News
29 accounts of bombing now available in Braille	'03/8/6
A-bomb accounts in the collection of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the A-bomb Victims in Peace Memorial Park (Naka-ku, Hiroshima) have been rendered in Braille and were made available to the public on August 5. Since the opening of the Memorial Hall in August last year, requests for Braille versions of the stories have appeared in the visitor books and elsewhere. The Memorial Hall collection now includes approximately 100,000 A-bomb accounts. The 29 stories now in Braille were selected from those displayed as part of the current exhibit "Memories That Must Not Be Lost - Deprived of family members". "Her older sister and younger brother were trapped under the collapsed house. When she had to leave, she kept looking back over and over screaming, 'Forgive me. Forgive me.'" These stories express the horror of leaving loved ones to die, the terrible grief of losing family members. The 29 Braille stories are divided into two volumes, and two sets are available in the reading room on the first floor (underground). Katakana letters are drawn in Sumi Ink beneath the Braille. The Memorial Hall plans to print more accounts in Braille the next time it produces a special exhibition.