Sadako Sasaki
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1943 – 1955
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Who was Sadako Sasaki?
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako is remembered through the story of a thousand origami cranes before her death, and is to this day a symbol of innocent victims of war.
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- Born
- Jan 7, 1943
Hiroshima - Also known as
- 佐々木 禎子
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Nobori-cho Elementary School
- Lived in
- Hiroshima
- Died
- Oct 25, 1955
Hiroshima
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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