![]() ![]() ![]() The story spread, and it so touched the Japanese that in 1958 a statue inspired by Sadako was erected in Hiroshima's Peace Park. After she died, her classmates finished the task, and 1,000 cranes were buried with the girl. "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," the George Levenson film screening this week as part of Kidsfest (the children's portion of Filmfest DC), tells what Sadako did to boost her spirits after her illness put her into the hospital: She folded sheets of origami paper into thumb-sized cranes.Īccording to a Japanese legend, if a sick person folds 1,000 cranes, the gods will grant his or her wish to be well again. ![]() Some Japanese called it the atom-bomb disease, and among its youngest victims was Sadako Sasaki, who was 2 when the bomb fell and 12 when she died in 1955. ADECADE after the cataclysm at Hiroshima, residents were still contracting leukemia. ![]()
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