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Photos and Artwork sent to Aranda Primary School in 1995
(Captions translated with the assistance of the Embassy of Japan, Canberra)

 


Hakushima Assembly
‘Our children at Hakushima Elementary School 
 have a Peace Assembly every year. 
 They think about what Peace is. 
 Then we pray that there will be no more war 
 in the world and that people in the world 
 will all hold hands and live together happily.’ 
 





‘Taking paper cranes to the 
                 Statue of the Atomic Bomb Children’ 
 
Cranes at the Children's Monument




Students at the A-Bomb Dome  
 
 
 
Drawing of the A-Bomb Dome

‘Atomic Bomb Dome - At 8:15 on the 6th of August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped and 
  the whole of Hiroshima was changed into a dead city’ 



Children's Monument
Drawing of Children's Monument

‘Statue of the Atomic Bomb Children - pray for peace’ 



Students at the Cenotaph   Drawing of the Cenotaph

'Atomic Bomb Monument containing the names of all the people who died from the atomic bomb’ 



Students at the Peace Bell  
 
 
Drawing of the Peace Bell

‘On 6 August at the ceremony they strike the Peace Bell’



Students at the Memorial for Unknown Victims
Drawing of the Memorial for Unknown Victims

‘Atomic Bomb Mound. We pray for the people who died, that they sleep peacefully’ 
 

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