Here, a Muslim girl visibly shows her religion by wearing a hijab headscarf. After the 9/11 attacks, many Muslims notably embraced their religion in response to the defamatory statements about their community.
A Muslim widow examines body bags containing the remains of recently exhumed victims of the 1992 “ethnic cleansing” campaign waged by Serbs against their Muslim neighbors (July 2001). Exhumations of mass graves began in 1996 and are expected to last for many years to come. Nearly 30,000 Muslims—most of them civilians—were listed as missing at the end of the war; most are believed to have been victims of “ethnic cleansing.”
Amin Maalouf, a French writer and author, believes that violence can be a result of tensions between identity and belonging. He writes about the need to find new ways to think about identity.
Photograph of Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Nuremberg Trial.
Ngaujah takes a break at a local restaurant, where he often rests during the day to escape from the heat on the streets. Usually he does not eat or drink during the day, saving the money he receives for his family. The only reason he is having a drink on this day is because a visitor bought it for him. Photograph by Sara Terry.
This is a view of a Southern U.S. street in the mid-1930s, Alabama.
September 1, 1924, Geneva, Switzerland: A view of the conference of the League of Nations.
A movie still showing the town that the Hangman visits from the animated film featuring the poem "The Hangman" by Maurice Ogden, written in 1951.
A window destroyed in a Jewish owned business. Berlin, Germany, November 1938.
A Chinese woman is carried into the hospital for gunshot wounds inflicted by a Japanese soldier who threatened to rape her.
A special newspaper edition that was published on October 1, 1946 announcing the pronouncement of sentences at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany
Photograph of poet and resistance member Abraham Sutzkever posing with child artist Zalmen Bok (Sam Bak) shortly after the liberation.