Sadako Sasaki, peacemaker
Jan. 7, 1943-Oct. 25, 1955
Sadako by Eleanor Coerr, illustrated by Ed Young (Putnam, 1993)
This is an adaptation of Eleanor Coerr’s classic novel, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. In this story, Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl stricken with “atom bomb disease” holds fast to the legend that if a person who is ill folds a thousand origami paper cranes, the wish to be well again will be granted. Though Sadako fell shy of her goal, her friends and classmates rallied behind her cause and saw that she was buried with one thousand cranes. Three years after her death, a statue of this great peacemaker was erected in Hiroshima Peace Park.
Visit a special exhibit about Sakado and her life posted by the city of Hiroshima.
