GENEVA, May 7 Kyodo - An exhibit opened Thursday in Jussy in the suburbs of Geneva to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Marcel Junod, a Swiss doctor who helped in the treatment of victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II.

At the opening ceremony, Jitsuro Yanagida, a board member of the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association, who is visiting Switzerland, read out a message from Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba praising Junod's efforts toward helping the atomic bomb victims.

After the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945, Junod arrived in Hiroshima as chief delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

On seeing the devastation caused by the bomb, Junod compiled a report on its effects, negotiated with the General Headquarters of the Allied forces for 15 tons of medical supplies to be sent to Hiroshima, and himself tended to the victims.

At the exhibit, Junod's diary as well as photographs of the atomic bomb victims that are on loan from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum are on display.

Junod was born in the Swiss city of Neuchatel on May 14, 1904, and died from a heart ailment on June 16, 1961. He was buried in a cemetery in Jussy. ==Kyodo