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Geneva honours memory of atom bomb victims
13-09-2005
Memorial plaque unveiled, special edition of Marcel Junod's booklet "The Hiroshima Disaster" – Events on 13 September 2005.
Sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (resp. 6 and 9 August 1945), the ICRC – along with Geneva's city and cantonal authorities and the Radio Suisse Romande – has held an event to commemorate the victims.
At a ceremony on 13 September outside the Ariana museum, in Geneva's Avenue de la Paix, a commemorative plaque was unveiled. At the same time a special edition of Dr. Marcel Junod's booklet The Hiroshima Disaster was published*. Dr. Junod, then head of the ICRC delegation in Japan, was the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima after the attack and to help care for the hideously wounded victims.
*Published by Labor et Fides , Geneva
- Read more on Hiroshima and the ICRC response
- Read the article by François Bugnion
- Read more about Marcel Junod
- Read the ICRC statement on nuclear arms of September 1945
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