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MSU now home to interviews with atomic bomb survivors

By Emanuele Berry

 

MSU’s G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is now home to the largest collection of of interviews with people in the Americas who survived the bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The interviews provide insight into the global network of survivors and the issues which they continue to face.  Dr. Naoko Wake has a joint appointment in MSU’s Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. Naoko, who helped bring the collection to the library, discusses  the interviews and what she’s learned from listening.

Professor Wake also collects interviews with survivors. Her work focuses on issues of silence and the role of gender, activism and the civil rights movement, in relation to bomb survivors.

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