On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the Japanese city of Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb. At 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, 41 years later, a group of 18 Japanese from Hiroshima stood in silent prayer at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial here.
They said afterwards that they prayed not only for the victims of their own holocaust but for the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust as well. Fumi-katso Innoway, who had organized the group’s visit to Israel, said the group would build a museum in Japan of the Jewish Holocaust. “No more Hiroshimas and never again Auschwitz,” he declared.
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