Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor
For Leslie Sussan, a 'New York Quaker Jew,' telling her dad's story is one way of trying to repair the world
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Breaking News Hiroshima Survivors Protest Nukes in Jerusalem
Survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Japan protested in Jerusalem against nuclear weapons. The survivors visited holy sites, including the Western Wall, on Monday, calling for the end of nuclear weapons, The Associated Press reported. They held signs in Japanese that read, “Nuclear Abolition.” “Any use of the atom [bomb] should be forbidden, even…
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