APRIL 22 – the “Hiroshima Maidens” with Kim Brandt, Columbia University
April 15, 2024
“Hiroshima Maidens” loosely translates genbaku otome, a phrase first used in early 1950s Japan to refer to young women who had been scarred by injuries received during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York, where they underwent extensive reconstructive surgery. The “Maidens”