Paper cranes
Paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument, Hiroshima, Japan.
Sadako Sasaki, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was two years of age when the bomb was dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki
Paper cranes
Paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument, Hiroshima, Japan.
Sadako Sasaki, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was two years of age when the bomb was dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki