VOSHN 119

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="111"><tr><td class="etesti">111</td><td class="edate">About August 9<sup>th</sup> - 10<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">29 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>A man was pulling out a gold tooth from a body</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img159.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I was wandering around to find my husband everyday.  One day I heard there were many bodies at the aid station of Koi Elementary School.  I went there with my baby boy on my back.  On my way there, I never failed to check every dead body to see whether it was my husband's or not.</p><br><p>Koi Elementary School was packed with bodies from the passageways to the bathrooms.  I checked every single body to find my husband.  In few days they started to decay and smell awful.  My baby on my back threw up.  I talked to him, "We have to find your father."</p><br><p>In such times of hardship for all of us, there was a man walking around and pulling out gold teeth from the dead bodies with pliers.  I said to him, "Stop doing that, please!  What a terrible thing to do!"</p><p>He was covered with blood from the dead bodies and their teeth he'd already pulled out.</p><p>He glared fiercely at me.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>