is a poem written in August 1945 in the radioactive ruins of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 by the poetess Sadako Kurihara

Sadako Kurihara

was a Japanese poet who lived in Hiroshima and survived the atomic bombing during World War II. She is best known for her poem Umashimenkana .-Biography:...

. It tells the real story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of exhaustion in the process. This poem was first published in March 1946.
The baby mentioned in the poem is still living today in Hiroshima, named Kazuko Kojima.

An alternate English name for the poem is We Shall Bring Forth New Life.

Further reading

• Robert Jungk
  Robert Jungk
  Robert Jungk , also known as Robert Baum and Robert Baum-Jungk, was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons....
  
  , Children of the Ashes, (English translation, 1961)
• On an Overgrown Path: Bring Forth New Life, for the text of the poem.