Hibakusha Stories and the Japan Society Education and Family Programs Department have enjoyed a successful collaboration.  It began when Kazuko Minamoto and Robert Fish volunteered to interpret for the program.  Since then Hibakusha Stories has presented two more sessions, filling the auditorium to capacity with students from public and private high schools throughout the NYC metro area.  The program in May, 2013 presented multiple perspectives: Hiroshima Maiden Shigeko Sasamori, Korean-born resident of Hiroshima Jong-keun Lee, the grandson of U.S. President Harry S. Truman who ordered the bomb’s deployment and Dr. Cynthia Miller, whose father D.C. Van Dyne of the Manhattan Project inadvertently contaminated his family with plutonium poisoning.

Youth Arts New York Founder Robert Croonquist gives the opening address
The program provided multiple perspectives on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dr. Cynthia Miller speaks about how people all along the nuclear fuel chain that produces the bombs are adversely affected
Shigeko Sasamori speaks as Clifton T. Daniel, Dr. Cynthia Miller and Jong-keun Lee listen
Shigeko Sasamori comforts Dr. Miller: “You bear no responsibility” she tells her
Shigeko Sasamori and Clifton T. Daniel
Teacher Dennison Joyce and a student from Landmark High School
A moment of reconciliation between Clifton T. Daniel and Shigeko Sasamori
Shigeko Sasamori remembers
Clifton T. Daniel
Jong-keun Lee demonstrates the position citizens were instructed to take if threatened by a bomb
Shigeko Sasamori recalls the suffering
Jong-keun Lee gives his testimony
Student has a private moment with Shigeko Sasamori

Photos by Paule Saviano, © 2013 all rights reserved

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