Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was one of the c.100,000 people killed by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. She was two years of age at the time and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years and became one of the most widely known hibakusha - meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes (thought to bring good luck) she folded before her death. Died at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.
Sasaki became a leading symbol of the effects of nuclear war and became an international symbol for peace. There are statues of her in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and in the Seattle Peace Park.
