Interview with Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima bomb survivor
Channel: Pressenza español
Date: 2019-08-06

Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old on the 6th of August 1945 when the first nuclear bomb was ever dropped in anger on another nation.  Unlike the vast majority of her classmates, Setsuko survived through the luck of being chosen by the military to work at a Japanese army base a mile or so away from the hypocentre of the detonation.

For our documentary, we understood that at 87 years old this could be one of the last opportunities to capture Setsuko's valuable testimony for future generations who hopefully will never know the horror of nuclear weapons.  We spent over an hour with this delightful lady in her home in Toronto where she told us about her childhood in Hiroshima before the war, the day the bomb went off, the experience of going to university and going to the US, her anti-nuclear activism, and the experience of campaigning for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Nobel Peace Prize.