Sadako Sasaki
Japanese origami artist · Japan · On the map · Lived 1943 to 1955 · aged 12
She was two when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. She lived ten more years, then died at twelve - remembered now for the more than one thousand paper cranes she folded in a hospital bed.
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Sadako Sasaki was born on January 7, 1943, in Japan. On August 6, 1945, at two years old, she survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima but was severely irradiated. For a decade she appeared to recover. Then the damage caught up. She spent her final months at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital folding origami cranes - more than one thousand of them before she died on October 25, 1955. She became one of the most widely known hibakusha, the Japanese term for bomb-affected person, her story carried forward by the cranes she left behind.