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Public invited to special presentation on Sunday
The Northern Marianas Humanities Council is inviting the public to a special presentation by Dr. Hideko Tamura Snider that will be held on Sunday, Jan. 3, at Charley’s Cabaret, Pacific Islands Club, starting at 6pm.
As a child of 10, Snider survived the atomic bomb attack that destroyed the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
She will discuss her life before the bomb, the attack itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States.
Snider is the 2015 Hiroshima Ambassador for Peace and a retired psychiatric social worker from the University of Chicago Hospital.
She has authored a memoir recounting the moment titled One Sunny Day: A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima and a picture book for all ages about creating peace in the world called When the Peace Tree Blooms.
Additionally, Snider helped to found the “One Sunny Day Initiatives” that seeks to educate the public about the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and to plant seeds of peace, hope, and reconciliation among people of the world.
This event, which is a part of the council’s ongoing Community Lecture Series, is free of charge and open to the public. Please contact council staff at 235-4785 for more information. (NMI Humanities Council)
