Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Photo taken May 17, 2023, shows paper cranes made by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city. Sasaki folded hundreds of paper cranes until her death at age 12 from leukemia, after learning of the legend that making 1,000 of them could make a wish come true.

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