Familiar facts and figures about the bombing feel different when encountered through the museum's objects and personal stories. One account concerns a girl who developed cancer after the bomb and still tried to keep others happy. A small schoolboy's uniform assembled from surviving clothing pieces belonging to three children who died has even greater emotional force. Its resemblance to a remembered primary-school uniform makes the victims imaginable as ordinary school friends. This personal reflection on civilian suffering concentrates on the emotional impact of the exhibits.
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Museum objects and the human cost of the Hiroshima bombing
The Hiroshima museum makes the bombing's human cost immediate through a girl's experience of cancer after the attack and a school uniform assembled from pieces belonging to three children who died.