Before you are 44 stories of Japanese schoolchildren and students, written six years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At the time of the tragedy, they were between four and thirteen years old, and they kept the events of those days in their memory for life. Professor Siege Arata, a philosopher and teacher, the founder of "peaceful pedagogy," who collected these works, which were not originally intended for publication, decided to publicize them so that as many people as possible around the world would find out what the residents of Hiroshima had to experience. The book "Children of the Atomic Bomb" was published in Japan in 1951 and had a huge impact on contemporaries. It became truly epochal, over time it was translated into many languages ​ ​ of the world and published in many countries. Finally, the turn came to Russia.