Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki (in Japanese 佐々木禎子 Sasaki Sadako ), young girl Japan ease born the January 7th 1943 and dead the October 25th 1955 with the 12 years age of a Leukemia due to the atomic bomb of Hiroshima. It became since with the paper crane a symbol for peace.

The August 6th 1945 with 8:15 of the morning, the first atomic bomb exploded approximately 580 meters above the center town of Hiroshima to the Japan. In the space of a few seconds the city was reduced to the debris state in the middle of a skinned plain. Many lives were destroyed this day. Sadako was then two years old and was this day with two kilometers of the place of the explosion. The majority of its neighbors were killed but Sadako was not wounded or did not seem the being.

Until 1954 it seemed to be a normal and merry little girl. Good pupil, it passed a childhood without main issue, grows normally and launched out in the race on foot of competition.

However, in 1954, after a relay where it had helped its team to gain, it felt extremely tired and its head turned. The Giddiness S passing, Sadako thought that they were caused only by tiredness, but it was not the case. Consequently more and more of incidents occurred. Later the giddinesses were such as it fell and could not be raised. His/her classmates called the mistress who contacted her parents. The latter took it along to the Hôpital of the Croix-Rouge where one diagnosed a Leucémie (a form of Cancer of the cells Sang uines), the “evil of the atomic bomb” which little survived at that time.

The best friend of Sadako, Chizuko, told him old the Japanese Légende 1000 cranes and a Origami brought to him. According to this one, whoever makes thousand cranes in Origami sees a exaucé wish. Sadako was harnessed consequently with the task, hoping that the gods, once the thousand folded cranes, would allow him to cure and to start again the race on foot. The family of Sadako worried in this connection. They often came to visit him to the hospital for him to speak and help it to make the origamis. After it had folded 500 cranes, it felt better and the doctors said that it could return to it for some time, but after less than one week it felt again badly and had to turn over to the hospital.

It made 644 paper cranes on the whole. She died the October 25th 1955 at the twelve years age. She had folded her cranes with all the paper which she could find, to the labels of its bottles of drug.

The history of Sadako had a deep impact on his/her friends and his class. They finished folding the 1000 cranes and continued to recover money of the Japanese schools in order to build a statue in the honor of Sadako and of all the children affected by the bomb.

Today, in the Park of Peace of Hiroshima, draws up a statue of Sadako placed on a pedestal in Granite and holding a crane in Or in its open arms. At its base this inscription is:

This is our cry.

This is our prayer.

to build peace in the world

Every year, of the children of the whole world folds cranes and send them to Hiroshima. The origamis are laid out around the statue. Thanks to Sadako, the paper crane became a international Symbole of the Paix.

The address to send paper cranes is:

Parc of the peace of Hiroshima

Bureau of the Mayor

Ville of Hiroshima

6-34 Kokutaiji-Machi

1 Is unemployed Naka-Ku

Hiroshima 730

Japan

External bonds

paper cranes and history of Sadako
the bird happiness, Japanese cartoon film of education to peace.

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