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"Appreciation - The Tomiko West Story" - Short Doc on a Hiroshima Survivor
Tomiko Morimoto West watched from her schoolyard as a low-flying B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing her mother and other family members. Thirteen-year-old Tomiko searched the devastated city for the body of her grandfather to save him the injustice of a mass burial, cremating him under mountain tree branches. She went on to marry an American GI, become a professor at Vassar College, and at age 90 has only one wish: that world leaders work together for global peace.
Tomiko and the filmmakers will be present for questions and answers after the film.
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Venue details: Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue 203 Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie, New York, 12604, United States
Category: Arts | Visual Arts | Film / Cinema
