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Jerzy Andziak was a Holocaust survivor and a convicted murderer. He was 14 when he became a slave laborer in 1943, 16 when he was freed in 1945, 20 when he killed a man in a botched burglary in 1948, and 21 when he was executed in 1949. In a plea for clemency, he wrote about what he saw .

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My mother graduating from nursing school in 1979. She just retired after 47 years as a nurse.

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The Lincoln Memorial in 1920.

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In 1921, Ada Blackjack joined an Arctic expedition team consisting of four men. She spent two years surviving alone on Wrangel Island and was the only member of the team to make it back alive.(320x213)

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Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish explorer, was photographed in 1912 after surviving two and a half years stranded in Greenland with fellow explorer Iver Iversen. They endured extreme isolation, hunger, and hallucinations while awaiting rescue.

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Adolf Hitler blowing his nose backstage at a Nazi rally, 1935. (1124x736)

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Einstein sitting outside a small wooden cottage near Cromer in Norfolk, England. He was the guest of Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who sits on the ground next to the professor carrying a shotgun. Oliver had offered refuge to Einstein to help him avoid persecution by the Nazis. 1933.

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A quite rare to find 1997 painting of leader Kim jong il driving a car with soldiers in the back watching him

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Getting her hair done 1960s

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East Berlin in the late 1980s

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Portrait of Petar Brzica, a Croatian Ustaše guard at Jasenovac concentration camp, holding the head of one of his Serbian victims. Won a contest for killing the most prisoners using a knife coined the “Serb-Cutter”. Disappeared in 1945. (1942 photo)(528x800)

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My great grandmother, 1940s

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