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The Jesuit Priests Who Survived Hiroshima
In the midst of the devastation, eight Jesuit missionaries who were in their rectory survived.
By Kathy Schiffer – Aug 6, 2020
Seventy-five years ago — on Aug. 6, 1945 — a B-29 Superfortress named the Enola Gay struck out across the Pacific and dropped a uranium-235 atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” flattened buildings for miles in all directions. Tens of thousands of people were killed instantly. That strike and the subsequent atomic bomb attack by the U.S. on the city of Nagasaki three days later brought an end to World War II, as the Japanese military leaders realized that they could not win.
But in the midst of the devastation, near the hypocenter of the attack, eight Jesuit missionaries who were in their rectory survived. Four of the priests whose lives were spared are known by name: Father Hugo Lassalle, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Father Hubert Schiffer and Father Hubert Cieslik sustained only minor injuries from shattered windows. None suffered hearing loss from the explosion. Their church, Our Lady of the Assumption, suffered the destruction of its stained glass windows but did not fall; it was one of only a few buildings left standing in the midst of widespread destruction.
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Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge
Background Research
Hiroshima: Built-Upness and Fire Protection Map
"Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit"
Hiroshima: Post-Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima: Pre-Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima: Extent of Fire and Exposure Distances Map
Timeline
To highlight the absurdity of war through Kleinsorge's sense of humor, objects and circumstances the Jesuit priest encounters are depicted as inverted images.
Process Images
Woman and Child
Interior of Destroyed House
Destroyed House
Mangled Power lines
Street Cars
Inside the Hospital
Bomb Explosion
Kimono
Devastated Landscape
Hiroshima: Pre-Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima Before the Bomb
Vegetable Garden
Twisted Stairs
One Single Weather Plane
Moon Bridge in Asano Park
Rock Garden
A White Flash