VOSHN 130

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="122"><tr><td class="etesti">122</td><td class="edate">Before August 15<sup>th</sup>, 1945</td><td class="eage">22 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>We wrote only their estimated ages and sex</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>My assigned duty as a soldier was the disposal of corpses.  At the beginning, I was putting on several pairs of gloves at a time, and was using my self-made hand-rake.  I hooked it to something on the copses like belts, and dragged them along over the shore.  From the second day on, I felt it was inconvenient, so I just used my bare hands.  I would hold each dead body with my bare hands, and pulled it up on the shore.</p><br><p>Once I couldn't reach the woman's body, I held her hair that was entangled, and tried to drag her that way.  The hairs came off all at once.</p><p>When I tried to hold the hand of the dead body, the skin stripped off.  It was as if you took off your glove.</p><br><p>When I used my hand rake, it went into the skin so deep.  Then you see the human flesh, which was filled with bumps in layers like fish roe.</p><p>So I still cannot eat fish roe.</p><br><p>We tried to identify the corpses.  We wrote only their estimated ages, sex.  Although we also reported the place where they were found, we were not even sure in which town we found them.  Everything was burned.  We just had to guess, "Well, it looks like it could have been XX town."</p></div></body>