Hideko Tamura Snider was a child of ten in Hiroshima when the city was destroyed by an atom bomb at the end of WWII. She survived with injuries and was ill for some time. Her mother did not survive.
In 2006, Hideko inspired and organized thirty-eight members of the Rogue Valley Peace Choir’s Peace Journey to Japan. This was a remarkable event for the Japanese as well as those who went on the trip to sing at the Peace Park for the sixtieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing at the end of WWII.
Since 1979, Hideko Tamura Snider has been appearing before professional organizations, university classes, and community groups across the United States, the U.K. and in her native Japan, telling her story and encouraging people of all cultures and nations to examine the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and to work toward peace and nuclear nonproliferation. She is a living witness to the challenges of peace, to the terrifying consequences of the alternative, and to lessons we have learned from Hiroshima since the war.
Oregon Becomes Second State in Nation to Support Nuclear Ban Treaty – Hideko Tamura Honored in the Joint Memorial
