'She moved little by little and she made a little hole,' Kondo told NPR's Weekend Edition of her mother's attempts to escape. She was trapped beneath the rubble with her mother. 'Suddenly, the whole house crashed,' Kondo recounts.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, had left earlier that morning. Koko Kondo was 8 months old and with her mother when the first atomic bomb hit her home city of Hiroshima on Aug.
