The Coventry Lord Mayor’s Peace Committee holds the annual remembrance event on 6th August to promote peace and reconciliation.
Origami paper cranes are made to remember a ten-year-old Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima and who died of leukaemia caused by radiation from the bomb. She made thousands of paper cranes during her illness and the making of paper cranes has come to symbolise hope and a desire for peace and reconciliation. Schoolchildren from Hiroshima make these cranes every year and send them to Coventry.
This year’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance is on Tuesday August 6th 2024 from 6.00pm to 7.15pm in the chapel of unity in Coventry Cathedral with music, poetry and making paper cranes for peace.
All are welcome to our annual remembrance of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945
For more details visit https://coventrycityofpeace.uk/
Photo credit Lord Mayor Peace Committee
