Inscription: Caption: Signing of the Nineteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, June 4, 1919. Mrs. Maud Wood Park is at the left of the desk in the foreground. Speaker Frederick H. Gillett is signing the document. When notice of…
April 26, 1986, signified the boundary between life and death. A new reckoning of time began. This photo was taken from a helicopter on the day following the explosion. The destroyed Chernobyl reactor, one of four units operating at the site in…
Handwritten testimony by a female secondary school student from Muremera Cell, Smunanira sector of Masango Commune in Gitarama Prefecture describing her experiences during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Polen 1945. Lagertor (innen) / Ausfahrt nach der Befreiung, im Vordergrund von den Wachmannschaften zurückgelassene Ausrüstungsgegenstände.
Wie die Frauen des KZ unter den extremsten Bedingungen die schwierigsten Arbeiten verrichten mußten, zeigen mehrere Fotos im neuen Museum der nationalen Mahn- und Gedenkstätte. Insgesamt geben etwa 700 Fotos, Dokumente und andere Sachzeugen Auskunft…
Aerial photograph of northern Warsaw Ghetto area (looking south, north direction located at bottom). In the middle German Concentration Camp in Warsaw (named KL Warschau or KZ Warschau), created in 1943 - see precise localisation of KL Warschau here…
Warsaw Ghetto: Zelaznej Bramy (Iron Gate) Square [1], ghetto wall and Lubomirski palace. Photo likely taken from Janasz Bazaar building at Rynkowa 11 street.