Sadako and Paper Cranes Poster Exhibition

The Sadako and Paper Cranes exhibition illustrates the lives of children who suffered the consequences of the Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945. Produced by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, it focuses on the life of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years of age when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima. She developed leukemia and died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. The act of folding a crane started by Sadako and her classmates turned into a national, then an international, children's peace movement.

Please note that the posters contain graphic details and images of the after-effects of the bombing of Hiroshima. The exhibition is open to the public on the ground floor of Cregan Library during our opening hours.