Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum

This guide to the Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum in Hiroshima centers on twelve-year-old Kiyoko Tsutsui, waiting by the shoe lockers at eight fifteen on the morning of August sixth, nineteen forty-five, when the school standing just four hundred and ten meters from the hypocenter came down around her. It follows what she and one of her teachers lived through in a building that held roughly four hundred children and ten staff, and what the school became in the days after as burned survivors and the Honkawa River outside its walls filled with the aftermath. You will hear how Kiyoko spent the rest of her life describing that morning, standing in the same entrance where she happened to be waiting.