Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the Cold War
The atlas holds 6 people and 9 moments here, from 1948 to 1963. The most recorded lives are Sadako Sasaki, Che Guevara and Helen Keller.
Notable people
Che Guevara
in 1959
1 moment here
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967) was an Argentine physician, Marxist revolutionary, Cuban government official, diplomat, and guerrilla commander.…
Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1953
1 moment here
American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…
Helen Keller
in 1948
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1963
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Sadako Sasaki
from 1949 to 1955
4 moments here
Japanese schoolgirl and Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor. Aged two when the bomb detonated over Hiroshima, she later developed leukemia, was…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1950
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1948 Visit to Hiroshima Helen Keller
- 1949 Entering Nobori-cho Elementary School Sadako Sasaki
- 1950 PEN inspection of Hiroshima atomic-bomb site Yasunari Kawabata
- 1953 Hiroshima visit Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1955 Admission to Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital Sadako Sasaki
- 1955 Beginning to fold cranes in hospital Sadako Sasaki
- 1955 Death at Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital Sadako Sasaki
- 1959 Visit to Hiroshima Che Guevara
- 1963 Hiroshima reporting visits Kenzaburō Ōe