Sadako, who had leukaemia, folded origami cranes while at hospital in the belief that if she made 1000 of them, she would survive. She died ten years after the bombings on October 25, 1955.

The New York State Museum (NYSM) announced Tuesday the opening of a new exhibit, Sadako’s Crane, in The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response Gallery. On display from Sept. 10-Oct.

Sadako’s classmates honored her by fundraising for a monument that still stands tall in Hiroshima’s own Peace Park, adorned with more than 10 million paper cranes every year.

People gathered at Peace Park in Seattle for a healing event after the theft of a bronze statue of Sadako Sasaki, who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb as a toddler.

Perhaps that’s why Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is banned in Florida. More than 100 books have been banned or put under review by school and public libraries in Florida.

The statue of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes — which was cut off at the ankles — is a life-size bronze of Sasaki, a Japanese girl who survived the Hiroshima bombing before later dying ...

Called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, the artwork honored Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old Japanese girl who died of leukemia in 1955—ten years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb ...

The statue depicted Sadako Sasaki, who was 12 when she died from cancer likely caused by the Hiroshima bombing. Community members believe a thief saw value in her bronze cast.

The statue of Sadako Sasaki stood in Seattle's Peace Park for decades, until July 12 when it was discovered someone cut the statue at the ankles and stole it.

The statue, known as Sadako and the Thousand Cranes, depicts a young Japanese girl who initially survived the 1945 bombings of Japan, in which the United States military dropped atomic bombs on ...

The legendary tale of paper cranes was mostly unknown to the world until Sadako Sasaki's story became famous: a 2-year-old girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, but went on to develop ...

TEHRAN-One of Sadako’s origami cranes is set to be donated to the Film Museum of Iran during a ceremony on Monday. In 2013, a handcrafted origami crane by Sadako Sasaki was presented to Ahmad ...