Kim Hwa-ja
Kim Hwa-ja, who was just four years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, recalls the chaos and terror of that day. Her family's desperate attempt to flee involved a makeshift horse-drawn trap, and she vividly remembers the sights and sounds of destruction. Like many other Korean survivors, she continues to deal with the lasting impacts of the bombing.
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Kim Hwa-ja was four on Aug. 6, 1945, and remembers being put on a makeshift horse-drawn trap as her family tried to flee Hiroshima after the bomb.
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