Koko Tanimoto Kondo will tell her family’s story of survival and peace efforts after an atomic bomb was dropped on her home city of Hiroshima, Japan. Her lecture at Morningside College begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in the UPS Auditorium in Lincoln Center.

Koko Tanimoto Kondo will tell her family’s story of survival and peace efforts after an atomic bomb was dropped on her home city of Hiroshima, Japan. Her lecture at Morningside College begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in the UPS Auditorium in Lincoln Center, 3627 Peters Ave.

Tanimoto Kondo was an 8-month-old child being held by her mother when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Her home was less than one mile from the hypocenter of the blast.  While she was too young to remember the bombing, she grew up amid the destruction of the city and witnessed the physical, emotional and mental effects that accompanied it.

Tanimoto Kondo was heavily influenced by her father, the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist pastor in Hiroshima. He was one of six atomic bomb survivors featured in the book “Hiroshima” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. The book tells of his unrelenting efforts to help victims both right after the bomb and many years later.

In 1955, Tanimoto Kondo appeared with her family on the television program “This is Your Life,” where they met Capt. Robert A. Lewis, copilot of the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Tanimoto Kondo graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1969 and has since devoted her life to sharing the stories of those affected by the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.