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It traces the family’s survival, the monument campaign led by classmates, and the Hiroshima Peace Park inscription. The guide also outlines how the story moved from page to stage through Youth Theatre Northwest productions, including research, script development, and rehearsal traditions, while noting later commemorations and current remembrance responsibilities.","Study Guide for Parents and Teachers  \nPrepared by Mimi Katano for Youth Theatre Northwest  \nAbout The Story  \nA Story ofSadako is a biographical account of Sadako Sasaki, who contracted Leukemia at the age of 12 as a result of the world’s fi rst Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, by the U.S. military plane, Enola Gay. An estimated 140,000 lost their lives by the end of 1945 and an additional 250,000 people suffered various illnesess from radiation poisoning.  \nAt the time of the bombing, Sadako was two. Her family lived 1.6 km away from the epicenter. Sadako was thrown from the impact of the blast, but was not injured otherwise, and her immediate family (mother, father, older brother, younger sister, and brother) all survived.  \nAlmost ten years later, in the fall of 1954, Sadako fell ill, and after a series of tests, she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She was admitted to the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima in February of 1955.  \nWhile hospitalized, Sadako was given strands of a thousand cranes sent by college students to children suffering from the A-Bomb disease. Inspired by this, Sadako began folding cranes in hopes of being cured, but in October of 1955, just eight months after the diagnosis, Sadako passed away. There are many different theories as to how many cranes she folded, but according to the accounts of her family and friends, she folded over 1,300 cranes with whatever paper she could find.  \nAfter her death, Sadako’s classmates decided to build a monument in her name. With the encouragement of their teachers, they attended the teachers’ convention, which had 2,000 principals of hunior-high schools from all over Japan. The classmates distributed flyers calling for donations from students.  \nIn 1956, a committee was formed for the monument, with members from 19 different schools and 4 teachers. By August of the same year, the committee had raised 4,220,627 yen (roughly $300,000), and on May 5, 1958, the “Children of Hiroshima” monument, with the statue of Sadako at the top holding a crane, was installed in Hiroshima Peace Park.  \nThe engraving of the monument reads:  \nThis is our cry.  \nThis is our prayer.  \nTo bring peace to the world.  \nOn the back side of the monuments, it reads:  \nTo honor our brothers and sisters who died from the Atomic bomb,  \nTo spread world peace,  \nWe, the children of Hiroshima, came together and With the help of children from all over Japan, We built this monument.  \nSadako’s story became widely known because of Eleanor Coerr’s book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, published in 1977, then again in the picture book format, entitled Sadako in 1997. The story has since been adapted into films and plays, and, as a result, Sadako is known to bethe most famous A-Bomb victim.  \nSeattle built its own Sadako statue in the Peace Park located in the University District in 1990 under the leadership of Floyd Schmoe, an activist and the winner of the 1998 Hiroshima Peace Prize. In 2024, the Sadako statue was severed at the ankles and stolen.  \nIt is important to remember that, on Augut 9, just three days after the Hiroshima bombing, another atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, killing approximately 75,000 people.  \nFrom Page to the Stage  \nA Story ofSadako, written by YTN’s Executive Artistic Director, Mimi Katano, was fi rst mounted in 2002 as a full-length play. Mimi brought Eleanor Coerr’s picture book, Sadako, to the theater leadership as they were planning a season. What inspired Mimi to pitch this story was it was about a 12-year-old girl and her friends who did something in the wake of tragedy and made adifference, which she felt was fitting for YTN. The project was met with enthusiastic agreement and Mimi began to create the script.  \nBetween 2000 and 2001, Mimi did extensive research on the topic, including a trip to Hiroshima, and collected information about Sadako based on interviews with her family and classmates. 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