'Some of them, their eyes could not close, or the mouth could not close because the lips were together with the chin,' Tanimoto-Kondo says. But her early memories are of the many people who were disfigured by terrible burns - including young women who came to be known as the 'Hiroshima Maidens.' When she was out she saw fires all over the place.' She moved little by little and finally she was able to make a little hole her head and she took me out of the house. 'So my mother realized and at first she asked for help but no one came. 'At first she thought, 'Ah, a baby is crying somewhere.' And then suddenly the crying cut off completely and then her mother's instinct she realized that it was her baby, that's me, could not cry any more because I could not breathe any more,' Tanimoto-Kondo recalls. It meant Tanimoto-Kondo and her mother were together when their house collapsed, trapping them in the rubble until Kondo's crying stirred her mother back to consciousness. That's why she was in her mother's arms and not crawling on the floor as usual, when at 8:15 exactly, the Enola Gay dropped its atomic bomb just 1.5 kilometers away. Someone from the church run by her father, a Christian minister. Prague, 6 August 2005 (RFE/RL) - Tanimoto-Kondo's mother had a visitor that August morning.