My favourite photo of my grandma from the early 70s

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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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My mom in 1948, eighteen.

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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 mother in her house, 1990s (Uzbekistan, Samarkand)

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Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 captured by photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman

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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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Anna Karina on the set of ‘Pierrot Le Fou’, 1965

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22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany

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Dame Maggie Smith 1950s

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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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Group of siblings posing for their photo sit by age, circa 1944.

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Mugshots of Victorian Era Child Criminals, 1870s