Shigeo Sasaki
Barber, Literature Subject
1915 – 2003
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Who was Shigeo Sasaki?
He devoted his life to campaigning for peace after his 12-year-old daughter, Sadako, died in 1955 of radiation-related leukemia, which she developed after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 10 years earlier. Shigeo Sasaki retold her story to schoolchildren around the nation.
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- Born
- Nov 11, 1915
Hiroshima - Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Profession
- Died
- 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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