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On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, destroying the city and killing tens of thousands of people.

Father Kleinsorge was a German priest living and working at the Society of Jesus in Hiroshima.

Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge was a German priest that comforts many of the wounded and dying.

A German Jesuit priest living in Hiroshima, Father Kleinsorge selflessly comforts many of the dying and wounded in the immediate aftermath of the bombing.

Tanimoto is aided by Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a Jesuit priest.

Tanimoto, Father Kleinsorge is trying to help victims.

Three days later, a second bomb exploded over Nagasaki.

In the months that followed this first-ever nuclear attack, Americans sought to understand the destruction the weapon had wrought. Members of the Yale community played important roles in surveying the devastation and describing the bombing’s human toll.

The Yale University Library houses archives that offer insight into this grim work.

John Hersey ’36 B.A., captured the plight of the survivors of Hiroshima in his celebrated narrative account that filled the entire Aug.

31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker. Hersey’s handwritten first draft of the article, the galley proofs, and documents that contributed to his research and reporting are included in an extensive collection of his papers housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.   

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