Hubert Schiffer

Father Hubert Friedrich Heinrich Schiffer, (July 15, 1915 – March 27, 1982)

Schiffer's own account describes the explosion:

Survivors All four Jesuit priests survived the explosion. The Jesuits were in a building stronger than most surrounding buildings, as noted by Hersey and Siemes, respectively:

Similarities with Nagasaki are sometimes highlighted, where a Franciscan friary established by St. Maximilian Kolbe was "unaffected by the bomb which fell there",

Later life Schiffer met both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-29 that bombed Hiroshima, the Enola Gay. In New York City in 1951, Schiffer met co-pilot Robert A. Lewis. Schiffer invited Lewis to visit Hiroshima in August 1952 for the dedication of a "palace of prayer", which Lewis accepted; Schiffer later met pilot Paul Tibbets in Dallas in 1975.

Schiffer, who had received a bachelor's degree in Japan, received a master's degree from Fordham University in 1952, and a doctorate there in 1958. In the 1960s, Schiffer worked as an associate professor of economics at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, and wrote a book on the Japanese banking system.

Schiffer died in the city of Frankfurt, then part of West Germany, on March 27, 1982.

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