The following collection is a collection of disturbing and painful historical photographs, some of which are difficult to see, but many of which capture important historical moments that we cannot allow ourselves to forget.
History is not all innovation and celebration, in fact, many are not. Examples of brutality, war, racism, genocide and other disturbing shameful facts are numerous.
Anne Frank's father, Otto, was the only surviving family member (1960), the attic where he was hiding from the Nazis, and later, photographer Arnold Newman recalled the scene when the photo was taken: "The mood was so depressed that I immediately began photographing him. A few minutes later, the Westerlen bell next door began to ring, and Frank turned to me and said, 'This is the bell that Anne wrote.' He suddenly had a complete breakdown and fell asleep uncontrollably, and so did I. We never met again. To this day, when I lecture to people or tell this story, I find myself choking up; I still can't control myself. ”
The escaped slave Peter Rex had marks of being whipped on his back. In March 1863, Peter escaped from John Bridget Lyons' 3,000-acre plantation. At the time of the 1860 census, John Bridget Lyons had enslaved him and 40 other people.
Dorothy was the first black student in the United States to enter an all-white school. In this photo, white students at the school laugh at her.
The photographs were taken in 1904, when the U.S. government imported 1,300 native Filipinos from different tribes and exhibited them at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. Below is a 1904 zoo girl on display at the Coney Island Zoo. Used to show off U.S. new property in the Philippines. She was tied with a rope. Visitors threw peanuts at her.
The Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago hangs dog tags of 58,307 American soldiers killed
Innocence and hatred mingle in 1992 when a Ku Klux Klan child and a black state police officer met during a Ku Klux Klan rally protest in Gainesville, Georgia. The toddler approached the police officer with a riot shield. Seeing his reflection in the blast shield, the boy reached out and touched his reflection.
On June 18, 1964, motel manager James Brock poured hydrochloric acid into the pool at Monson Motel in order to get black swimmers out of the pool.
In 1890 a patient in Germany who was undergoing psychiatric treatment. This 1890 photograph depicts a woman forced into a crucified pose, facing a wall. The woman was a patient in a psychiatric hospital and was being treated. Believe it or not, in 19th-century Germany, forced standing was a legal remedy for mental illness.
In 1948, the university of Oklahoma's first African-American student to be admitted was forced to separate from white students.
On May 5, 1945, U.S. troops found rings, watches, fine stone glasses, and gold fillers near Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis took tens of thousands of wedding rings from Holocaust victims.
Armenian female militia.
Blanche Monnier, a woman from France who was secretly locked up in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 26 years, was eventually discovered by the police when she was middle-aged, thin and dirty. According to officials, Monnier did not see any sunlight throughout his captivity.
In April 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. and his son pulled up a burning cross from his atlanta doorstep.
Baby gas masks. During World War II, the threat of biological and chemical weapons frightened citizens and soldiers throughout Europe. In preparation for a possible gas attack, civilians could have protected themselves with gas masks. But what about children and babies who are too small to wear gas masks? This gruesome photo from 1940 shows nurses testing new "gas masks" for babies.
She was one of hundreds of thousands of children abducted by the Nazi regime. After the war, she was taken to an orphanage where she never found her real family.
A Croatian soldier stood in front of a wall that read, "God, if I die early, send me to the heavens of hell, I have already been there." ”
A rescue dog was transported from the rubble of the U.S. World Trade Center. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11.
The Magdalene Shelter, also known as the Magdalena Laundromat, is "a place for women to transform themselves from the idea of a good and upright citizen.". Women and girls are abused by asylum workers, most of whom are nuns.
On May 10, 1945, a Japanese family returned to Washington from a relocation center camp in HentaHo.
In June 1962, during a bloody uprising against President Pétangu. Father Luis Manuel Padilla holds a wounded government rifleman in the streets of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
Prisoners in the Ebensi concentration camp in 1945.
From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Department of Public Health conducted a study that deliberately gave untreated syphilis to 399 African Americans.
On 1951-09-06, in Hae-joo, South Korea, a weary North Korean girl carries her brother on her back next to a stalled M-26 tank.
A watch stopped at 8:15 a.m. was found in Hiroshima, Japan.
Around 1900, 26 Belgian coal miners squeezed into a coal mine lift after a day of work.