Gestapo photos of fearless non-violent activist, Sophie Scholl, during possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance of the twentieth century, 1943

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Woman arrested for protesting segregation. 1960's

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1935 Mugshot of Erich Honecker, the later head of state of the GDR (German Democratic Republic)

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Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year in GULAG. He would launch the first human into space April 12, 1961

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Laura Belle Devlin after her arrest in 1947 for murdering and dismembering her 75-year-old husband with a hacksaw, throwing some of his body parts in the wood stove and the rest in their backyard in Newark, Ohio.

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My favourite photo of my grandma from the early 70s

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Irma Grese, a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II who earned the infamous nicknames "Hyena of Auschwitz" and "Witch of Bergen-Belsen" due to numerous accusations of cruelty and brutality, 1945.

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My grandmother in her Brazilian immigration document after escaping the Uruguayan military dictatorship, 1975

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Franca Viola became the first Italian woman to refuse a “rehabilitating marriage” (“matrimonio riparatore” in Italian) with her victimizer after suffering kidnapping and rape. She was one of the first Italian women who had been raped to publicly refuse to marry her rapist. 1966

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19 year old Ava Gardner photographed for her MGM employment questionnaire (1942)

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A 15 year old pupil from Hungary who was killed in the Holocaust

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My Paternal Grandpa. Circ 1953

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Margaret Care, aged 14, when she was admitted into Barnardo’s Home, 273 Mare Street, Hackney, April 11th, 1900, after the deaths of her parents from tuberculosis. She spent just over a year in the home before she caught pulmonary tuberculosis and passed away.