A 9-year-old boy from Amsterdam during the Dutch famine better known as "winter hunger" from 1944 to 45. Many children carried spoons with them wherever they went "just in case".

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Destitute family, 1936

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A homeless man in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, 1941

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One of America’s youngest newsboys (4 years old) Florida, 1913.

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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938

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A child serving in the Soviet partisans. Photographed 1942, Novgorod.

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Faces of Auschwitz, 1940

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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938.

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A man guards his family from cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 under British rule in India.

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An elderly woman and 3 children walking to the gas chambers in Auschwitz 1944.

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My favourite photo of my grandma from the early 70s

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Coal miner's child using a hole in the door to enter a bedroom ,1938

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1900s Kids Staying Cool out on their Balcony on a Hot NY night