VOSHN 205

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="192"><tr><td class="etesti">192</td><td class="edate">August 9<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">20 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>I couldn't walk but stepped on the dead bodies.</td></tr></table><div class="largep"><p>People crushed under collapsed houses were asking for help.  But I could not help all of them because I myself was in danger.  I saved several persons, though.  I said "Buck up!" to them.  When I took them by the hands, the skin of their hands came off and adhered to my hands.</p><br><p>Both men and women were all naked.  It was such an unbearable sight that I covered their waists with the wooden panels I found there.  There were way too many people who needed to be rescued, that I was exhausted in despair.  I managed to rescue people who were crying, but could not help others.</p><br><p>Their intestines were exposed and their eyeballs were hanging out. You have stepped on a toad in the dark by accident, haven't you? It was as such that I had to step on human corpses to walk on. People who were still alive groaned. They said "Help me," or "I want some water."</p></div></body>