About Sadako Sasaki
Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako; January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were 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. Artist Sue DiCicco founded the Peace Crane Project in 2013 to celebrate Sasaki's legacy and connect students around the world in a vision of peace. A paper crane database has been established online for contributors to leave a message of peace and to keep a record of those who have donated cranes.
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