"The skin hung from my back like a rugged cloth"

 "The skin hung from my back like a rugged cloth" 

Sumiteru Taniguchi was 16 years old when the atomic bomb fell over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

He worked as a letter carrier when the blast threw him from his bicycle. 

He recalled: "When I woke up, the skin of my left arm from the shoulder to the tip of my fingers was trailing like a rag. I put my hand to my back and found my clothing was gone, and there was slimy, burnt skin all over my hand." 

The heat from the bomb had melted the skin on his back and left arm, he remembered that he did not feel any pain.

Confused and disoriented, Taniguchi searched for help in the chaos: 

"Bodies burned black, voices calling for help from burning and collapsed buildings, people with flesh falling off and their guts falling out... This place became a sea of fire. It was hell." 

He stumbled upon a group of survivors which helped cutting off loose parts of the skin, and then carried to a hill to rest among other wounded. The day after everyone but Taniguchi had succumbed to their injuries. Nobody noticed him as he was too weak to reach out and scream for help. 

Three days went by until he was brought to a clinic where he spent the next 21 months lying on his stomach, getting treatment.

During this time Taniguchi developed severe bedsores on his chest which left permanent scars, three ribs half rotted away and permanently pressed against his lungs. 

"Holes opened between my ribs and the movement of my heart and other organs became visible through the decomposing flesh."

In March 1949, he was discharged from the hospital, but his wounds were not treated properly until 1960. 

Taniguchi spent the rest of his life speaking against nuclear weapons and hoped that no one else have to suffer the pain that these weapons cause. 

He died in 2017 of duodenal papilla cancer and not a day went by without pain. 

Between 60 000 - 80 000 people died in Nagasaki due to the bomb. The rest of the pictures is of the city and the terrible disaster. 

Photo - Eugene Hoshiko

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