Three students from Bosnia-Herzegovina visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Jul. 7, 2016
by Mei Hashihara, Staff Writer
On July 5, three elementary school and junior high school students from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where an ethnic conflict took place some 20 years ago, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located in Naka Ward.
They gazed intently at a panoramic model which shows the transformation of the city center before and after the atomic bombing as well as personal effects of the victims, including a charred tricycle. Dzejla Subacic, 13, stopped in front of a photograph of Sadako Sasaki, the girl who died of radiation-induced leukemia at the age of 12 and became the inspiration for the Children’s Peace Monument, and said she was very moved by her firsthand visit to the A-bombed city.
The IPIL-IPIL no Kai, a citizens’ group in Tokyo which began planting cherry trees in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2002, and started holding a children’s art contest from 2014, invited winners of the contest to visit Hiroshima.
(Originally published on July 7, 2016)
On July 5, three elementary school and junior high school students from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where an ethnic conflict took place some 20 years ago, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located in Naka Ward.
They gazed intently at a panoramic model which shows the transformation of the city center before and after the atomic bombing as well as personal effects of the victims, including a charred tricycle. Dzejla Subacic, 13, stopped in front of a photograph of Sadako Sasaki, the girl who died of radiation-induced leukemia at the age of 12 and became the inspiration for the Children’s Peace Monument, and said she was very moved by her firsthand visit to the A-bombed city.
The IPIL-IPIL no Kai, a citizens’ group in Tokyo which began planting cherry trees in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2002, and started holding a children’s art contest from 2014, invited winners of the contest to visit Hiroshima.
(Originally published on July 7, 2016)
