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「人道研究ジャーナル」Vol.2

The Journal of Humanitarian Studies Vol. 2, 2013The Hiroshima Chapter building, where some parties took memorial photograph, when they depart the Chapterto join the relief activities during wartime, was standing at an extremely close range from the hypocentre of theatomic bomb. For this reason, the building was utterly destroyed and skeletonised; in consequence, 19 Red Crossstaff were killed.Furthermore, in 1995, a memorial monument -‘Pray for Peace’? to commemorate A-bomb nurse victims wasestablished at the front of the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital. The monumentstands with names of officers, nurses and nursing students of the JRCS Hiroshima Chapter and the Hiroshima RedCross Hospital, and it also stands with names of nurses of the following Red Cross chapters: Party No. 71, PartyNo. 112, and Party No. 489 of the Hiroshima Chapter; Party No. 717 of the Ehime Chapter; Party No. 133 and No.862 of the Yamaguchi Chapter; Party No. 716 of the Tokushima Chapter. The total number of the name of victimsis 117. (11)III. Memoirs of Japanese Red Cross Nurses on the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Relief Activities1. Relief Activities in the City of HiroshimaThe Hiroshima First Army Hospital in the south of Hiroshima Castle and near the west parade ground, and theHiroshima Second Army Hospital in the west of the castle alongside the Ota River were complete demolished.They only left the poles of their gates as it could be seen in a number of photographs today. A large number of RedCross nurses, who were dispatched to the hospitals, and nurses belong to the Imperial Japanese Army lost theirlives.Apart from this, there were a few nurses, who miraculously survived. A chief nurse of the JRCS HiroshimaChapter Party No. 112 was bombed in the atomic attack when she worked at the Hiroshima Second Army Hospital,while other Red Cross nurses moved to the branch hospital in Tojo-cho.When I went to the toilet, I saw a sudden blue white bright flash at a small window. In a second, I thought that I was dead -crushed debris hit down to me with a great sound. When I managed to come out from the mounds of rubble, I looked at thesite, and wondered why I could survive with almost no injuries, and then I suddenly thought that the hospital was bombed.I turned my face at once towards a main building of the hospital to contact headquarters; however, I did not see the mainbuilding. I only saw wreckage due to total destruction. [...] Imagine the picture scrolls of hell. Imagine that the dead madpeople are running around amidst a huge red fire with demons. If you are the Japanese, you can imagine this.In addition to the real picture, mounds of victims, including soldiers and civilians, lied down like pigs at a bank of thehospital. They were seeking water and supported their heads with cold dead bodies as a pillow to cool themselves down.When military sailors came to pick up the dead body pillows every morning, victims moved their heads and faced sailorswith swollen eyes which could not see anything as they were saying why have you taken my cold pillow. There were no cupsfor drinking water but only some plates and thin gum tubes from somewhere else. We drew water from a river and cut thegum tubes into 20cm length. We passed tubes to every nurse and put them in the mouths of victims to suck liquid through.It was a nightmare. There was no bedding; therefore, we put victims with only some clothes on the ground. Their clotheswere covered with blood. I will never forget that horrible night, which was just like a battlefield. (Memories of the ReliefActivities of Party No. 120) (12)70人道研究ジャーナルVol. 2, 2013