VOSHN 322

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="300"><tr><td class="etesti">300</td><td class="edate">On and after August 16<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">Call out each other in a low voice.</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>26 years old at that time</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>Though a mother and daughter were in the same hospital ward, each of them had no idea of this at all.  And also we did not.  Then, it turned out accidentally that they were in the eighth ward in which I was.  I thought that they were mother and daughter (a parent-child relationship).  Well, I was not sure that they were a parent-child because the two were badly injured.  After that, well, I had had fellow workers exchange the beds; we placed the beds side by side for them.</p><br><p>But we had placed the beds side by side they really were in miserable condition.  They had got burned on the hands.  The mother lay down next to the daughter.  They could not grasp their hands each other, however, they were next to.  I remembered the daughter had died first.  The mother and the daughter said: "Mummy" "Hideko" in a faint voice.  The daughter died after they called each other.</p><br><p>When the affair comes to my mind my heart is still now too full for words.  And in the same night her mother died too.  The mother died, too, immediately after her death.</p></div></body>