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Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

Survivors of Hiroshima are reunited with their childhood drawings over 60 years later.

Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

57m 59s

Buried for decades deep inside a church in Washington DC, a collection of surprisingly joyful drawings, created in 1947 as a gift of thanks by school children living among the ruins oaf Hiroshima, are rediscovered and restored for a 2010 exhibition in Japan. There, the drawings are reunited with the original artists and displayed in the very building where they were created.

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    Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

    57m 59s

    Buried for decades deep inside a church in Washington DC, a collection of surprisingly joyful drawings, created in 1947 as a gift of thanks by school children living among the ruins oaf Hiroshima, are rediscovered and restored for a 2010 exhibition in Japan. There, the drawings are reunited with the original artists and displayed in the very building where they were created.

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