The Boy Standing by the Crematory

The photograph is of a boy of about 10 with his dead baby brother strapped to his back, waiting for his turn at the crematorium.

The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby.

The boy turned around and walked silently away.O'Donnell made personal copies of his Nagasaki photographs and kept them hidden in a trunk until 1989, when he put together a traveling exhibit and a book.

[4] In 1979, Yoshitoshi Fukahori, who had been near the bombing and was still haunted by trauma from the events, began a lifelong effort of collecting photographs of the immediate aftermath.

He also believed that he had met the boy after the bombing, carrying his dead brother on his back, and explaining "My mother isn't here".

[2] A 50-minute[7] documentary film, Searching for the Standing Boy of Nagasaki ('焼き場に立つ少年'をさがして), was produced by NHK[1] and released on August 8, 2020.