Keywords: war, children, history

Oral history currently is one of the priority trends of historical science. Comprehension of events of the Great Patriotic war on the basis of memories of the war-time children from Ossetia make it possible to detail the doings in the region, at the same time enlarging a global picture of the war. The article attempts to study the inner world of little man through the children’s memories, providing information, which is often inaccessible with traditional methods for study of history of the war.