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.
Joshua Rubenstein, author and associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, details the relationship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the decade before World War II.
Author Wes Moore discusses society’s obligation to ask why avoidable tragedies happen.
This is a view of a Southern U.S. street in the mid-1930s, Alabama.
A window destroyed in a Jewish owned business. Berlin, Germany, November 1938.
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.
Holocaust survivor Absil Walter recalls the blood libel myth’s impact on his community.
General Douglas MacArthur observes as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru signs the Instrument of Surrender.
Acipco Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama, late 1930s.
Dr. Victoria Barnett speaks about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who took a stand against the Nazis.