Interview with atomic bomb survivor Tadashi Hasegawa, Pt 1

Tadashi Hasegawa was a 14 year old boy when the atomic bomb exploded near his home in Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. In this, the first video in a 3 part series, he describes that fateful morning in vivid detail recalling everything he saw, heard, and felt during one of the most horrifying events in human history.

 


Interview with atomic bomb survivor Tadashi Hasegawa, Pt 2

Tadashi Hasegawa was a 14 year old boy when the atomic bomb exploded near his home in Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. In this, the second video in a 3 part series, he describes he and his family’s struggle to survive those first few months after the bombing, despite his terrible wounds and lack of food or medicine. He is on the verge of death, with no hope in sight, until his father has a chance encounter with a nearby Jesuit novitiate and Fr. Pedro Arrupe.

 


Interview with atomic bomb survivor Tadashi Hasegawa, Pt 3

Tadashi Hasegawa was a 14 year old boy when the atomic bomb exploded near his home in Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. Horribly injured and on the verge of death, he and his family struggle to survive the first desperate months after the bombing. In this, the third video in a 3 part series, he describes how when there seemed to be no hope, a chance encounter with a Jesuit priest would result in his miraculous healing and set him on the path to priesthood and his life’s work of speaking out against nuclear war.

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