UNESCO listing sought for A-bombed girl’s paper cranes
Bereaved relatives of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukemia after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, have filed for the registration of her orizuru (paper cranes) and other items under UNESCO’s Memory of the World program. The application was filed with the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO. Sadako, the model of the Children’s … Read more