Setsuko Thurlow, Kathy Lowinger

Never Silent

A Hiroshima Survivor's Story
Illustrator: ` Theodore, Michelle

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Produktbeschreibung

To be published on what will be the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, survivor Setsuko Thurlow shares her memories of that horrific event and her resulting lifelong commitment to activism to ban nuclear arms. When Setsuko Thurlow was thirteen, she witnessed one of history's most horrific events. She experienced-and survived-the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Since then, she has worked tirelessly to educate people about the catastrophe and to ensure that it never happens again. As a leading member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), she gave the acceptance speech when the organization won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Never Silent recounts Setsuko's earliest memories of her happy life in Hiroshima, followed by the devastating firsthand impact she witnesses after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and finally traces the steps she takes to rebuild a life in the aftermath of her experiences. With informational text scattered throughout the book to give historical context for the places and events, readers are given a full and profoundly affecting picture of what it was like after the bomb dropped, the struggle to return to normalcy, and the plea for activism to ban nuclear weapons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Annick Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Altersempfehlung: 11 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781773219851
• ISBN-10: 1773219855
• Artikelnr.: 72707032

Autorenporträt

Setsuko Thurlow was thireen years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the city she grew up in. Setsuko survived the blast, but that event shaped her life, as she worked tirelessly to make sure that no one would ever again experience that horrific event. Setsuko has devoted her adult life to campaigning for nuclear disarmament, working with the organization ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Setsuko lives in Toronto, Canada. KATHY LOWINGER is an award-winning author whose books include Give Me Wings! How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World (2015), Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People (2017), and What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal (2019).  MICHELLE THEODORE is an illustrator born and raised under the prairie skies in Edmonton, Alberta. As a landlocked yonsei, she is often reminiscing about coastal summers with family, inspired by her times on beaches collecting sand dollars and eating homemade salmon jerky.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Setsuko's Message
Section One
The Before Time
 Growing up in Hiroshima, my family was descended from the line of samurai
Our Life in Wartime
 As a 13-year-old schoolgirl I received special training in decoding
messages
A Visit to Hiroshima
 A brief history of the city of Hiroshima with a visit to the Hiroshima
Memorial Peace Park
The World Goes to War 1939-1945
 Adolf Hitler and the Nazis bring on World War II
Japan in World War II
 Japan allies itself with Germany as a military global power
Japan at War Timeline
 Key dates of events in Japan's military history
Section Two
The Living and the Dead
 I look back at the impact of the bomb, and what it was like being trapped
under rubble
The Next Days
 Reunited with my parents who also survived, together we dealt with the
devastating  effects of the bomb
Aftermath
 In the weeks and months that followed the bombing, I witnessed many people
becoming sick and dying
Life Under Occupation
 The rationale for the Americans deciding to drop the atomic bomb. American
and British occupying forces bring much  needed changes to Japan, but
evidence of the destructive impact of the atomic bomb is hidden
Little Boy and Fat Man
 The power and magnitude of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Section Three
The Silence Lifts
 My move to the United States to study, my vow to never be silent, and my
growing involvement with the peace movement
The Atomic Age is Born
 The public's fascination with the power of the atomic bomb from comic
books to further nuclear testing
Section Four
Ban the Bomb!
 A world movement to ban nuclear weapons begins in 1958
My Fight for Peace
 I was determined that the world would know about the horrors of the atomic
bomb so that calamity would never happen again
A Call to Action
 You too can get involved!
Sources
Acknowledgements
Credits