VOSHN 275

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="257"><tr><td class="etesti">257</td><td class="edate">August 15<sup>th</sup> former, 1945.</td><td class="eage">44 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>I walked and opened the mouths of corpses.</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>There were a lot of corpses in the fire-devastated areas.  They were all naked and the hair on their heads was burnt off.  So I couldn't tell whether they were men or women.  They didn't leave home naked.  They became naked because their Kimonos were burnt off.  My own daughter had a peculiar alignment of her front teeth.  And she was very young so her pelvis was not strained.  She was undergoing dental treatment for a back tooth that had decayed.  So I took it as my guide and searched for her by opening the mouths of dead people.</p><br><p>Basically I'm timid, so I was really frightened to touch the dead bodies.  However, in those days, it sounded so selfish that I was frightened.  I was looking around the dead bodies randomly.</p><br><p>There were some people alive but I could do nothing.  I was absorbed in finding my daughter as soon as possible.  I wanted to find and bury her as quickly as possible.  There were many dead people in the school ground of Shiroyama elementary school.  I felt so sorry for them; however, I stepped over the corpses, turned them over and walked around opening their mouths.</p></div></body>