The Children Peace Memorial and the thousand crane origamis - stock photo

The Children Peace Memorial and the Story of the 1000 Origami Cranes, in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, stand numerous memorials to honor the spirits of the dead, among the many structures, is the Children's Peace Memorial, a piece done in the motif of an origami crane that many travelers come to see every day. On the monument wee see some thousand paper cranes origami from Sadako, this is a local story of a girl who got Lucemia after the bomb and she's started to do more than a thousand cranes of origami to signs wold peace, but the story tells that she did not finish the thousand paper figures, and now children from all over the world mostly from Japan makes thousands of those types of origami papers and leave them on the monuments in Hiroshima. The Children Peace Memorial was completed on May 5, 1958, in honor of Sadako Sasaki, Sadako was only 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, ten years later, she died of Leukemia.