A life size bronze of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl who survived the Hiroshima bombing, but later died from radiation sickness at age 12. Children visit the park and bring origami cranes to the statue.
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On August 6, 1945, during WWII, the United States military dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshia and Nagasaki, collectively wiping out over one hundred thousand people. This week, we use music to solemnly remember the devastation of these events and the unbelievable destruction and anguish caused by war.
Hiroshima: Thousand Cranes
Recorded Version with Photos from Hiroshima & the Sadako statue
Live Version
Malvina Reynolds: What Have They Done to the Rain
Version by Marianne Faithfull
Version by Joan Baez
Fred Small: Cranes Over Hiroshima
This is a song about Sadako Senaki, a Japanese girl who was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
- Learn more about her in the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- How to Fold a Paper Crane
