Thousands of paper cranes are sent to Hiroshima every year in her memory.
The book is used worldwide to teach children about empathy and history.
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📍 — Inscription at the Children's Peace Monument.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (known in Turkish as Sadako ve Kağıttan Bin Turna Kuşu) is a moving work of historical children's fiction by Eleanor Coerr. Based on a true story, it explores the devastating human cost of nuclear warfare through the eyes of a young girl. Thousands of paper cranes are sent to Hiroshima
Sadako's story is a plea for a world without nuclear weapons.
It highlights the long-term suffering caused by nuclear radiation. Folding instructions for your own origami crane
The crane represents the human spirit's refusal to give up.