The opening ceremony of the event is in between two horrible historical dates. On August 23, 1942, a thousand bombs of the Nazi aviation ground Stalingrad into dust, and on August 6, 1945the US Air Force dropped an A-bomb on Hiroshima.

The idea of this exhibition was born last August, when Volgograd Regional Universal Academic Maxim Gorky Library initiated a series of Peace Lessons, dedicated to the victims of the bombings. The drawings show us how this tragedy is seen not from an adult's perspective, but from children's point of view.

One of the most famous victims of the A-bombing is Sasaki Sadako, the girl who made an origami crane into a symbol of the nuclear tragedy. Although she was not visibly injured in the explosion, during the elementary school the girl developed leukemia – the blood cancer caused by radiation exposure. In order to have a chance at recovery, Sadako put all of her time and effort into folding a thousand of paper cranes – according to an old belief, this accomplishment would allow any her wish to come true... But it did not work out. The first monument to a girl with a paper crane was opened in Japan in 1959.

In Volgograd, the tragedy of the civilian population is reflected in the statue "To the Children of War-Stricken Stalingrad" in Lenin Square — a little girl wrapped in an old shawl is clutching the paw of her teddy. Another place to honor the memory of Stalingrad bombing victims is the memorial on the crossroads between Komsomolskaya and Chuikova Streets, where the merciless white bomb is hovering ominously over the smoke-like figures of women, children and elderly people.