The Maidens of Hiroshima
N the ruins of the high school and elsewhere young girls whose faces and bodies were scarred and crippled were among the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 12 years ago. Because of their injuries, which time did not heal, most of these girls -the Maidens of Hiroshima-could not find work, and their disfigured faces caused them to withdraw from the normal life of their community into their own close circle. It was a Methodist minister, the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, himself a survivor of the bombing, who first brought them help and hope; and when an American editor, Norman Cousins, met Mr Tanimoto and, later, the girls, he started a movement to bring them to the United States for surgical treatment. Plastic surgeons and a New York hospital soon offered their services. How these efforts brought new hope to these young war victims is told in The Maidens of Hiroshima, a feature written, narrated and produced by Colin D. Edwards, to be heard from YA stations and 4YZ at 9.30 am. on Sunday, August 4--just two days before the 12th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima. In this programme listeners will hear the voices of many of those who were involved in this humane pro-ject-inclucing the Maidens of Hiroshima themselves,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 7
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216The Maidens of Hiroshima New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 7
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