ILWAUKEE NATIVE BARBARA REYNOLDS moved to Hiroshima, Japan, in 1951 with her husband, Earle, who was studying the effects of radiation on, into US and Russian nuclear testing areas to protest the use of the bombs. Barbara toured nations with nuclear capabilities in the company of Hiroshima bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, to show the suffering the weapons can cause. In 1965, Barbara founded the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima as a place for people to hear the stories of hibakusha and to work for peace. Inspired by the story of Sadako, a girl who attempted to fold one thousand paper cranes so her prayers of healing from leukemia caused by radiation would be answered, the World Friendship Center produced these Peace Puzzle kits containing origami paper and folded cranes in 1967. Most were sent to Quaker churchs in the United States. This one is preserved in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
