Folded a family of four paper tsuru or Japanese cranes. I folded the paper cranes for leisure but in 1955 a desperate young girl did that with the belief that it could cure her of her illness.Sadako Sasaki, a Second World War Hiroshima atomic bomb victim, believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes she would be cured of radiation sickness from the atomic bomb. However she managed to fold only 644 paper cranes before she succumbed to her radiation illness and died on the morning of October 25 1955. The picture on the right is a stature in memory of Sadako Sasaki erected in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park depicting her holding a golden crane.
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