Nagasaki: ‘I thought I would go out of my mind with grief . . . I will never forget it’
NOVANEWS
The Irish Times
Sitting in her Belfast home, 66 years after Nagasaki, Nobuko Pollock vividly recalls the horror of the bombing that killed her brother, destroyed her home and flattened an entire city
THE LIVING ROOM of Nobuko Pollock’s semi-detached house in Belfast is tiny and homely, crowded with mementoes gathered over a lifetime.Origami sculptures and kimono-clad dolls jostle for space with figurines and framed photos of her only grandchild, seven-year-old Rebekah.
The TV appears oversized among such knick-knacks, but its prominence is no accident: it is Pollock’s umbilical link with her motherland. Each year, she tunes into the commemorations for the atomic bombing at Nagasaki, in which, 66 years ago this Tuesday, Pollock lost a brother and escaped with her life.
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