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Watercolor from Elisabeth Kaufmann's sketchbook, which she kept during the Holocaust, showing pedestrians on a road in the rain.

Watercolor from Elisabeth Kaufmann's sketchbook, which she kept during the Holocaust, showing refugees fleeing Paris in advance of the German invasion.

Families pray together on the West Side of Chicago to remember a young girl who was raped and killed. Parents who have lost children to violence often come together here to support other families who have experienced the same tragedy.

Ngaujah stands on the hillside above Freetown, where he has been able to build a house of zinc metal on a small piece of land given to him by the government. He does not plan to return to Kono, the district where he was born and grew up (and where he was captured by rebels), because he believes that there are better opportunities for him and his family in Freetown, the nation’s capital. “What has been done, has been done,” he says.

Wikuchela Waters sleeps on his parents’ bed in Allen, South Dakota. Allen, part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, has been called the poorest city in America, with a per capita income of $1,539. Over 90% of the population on the Pine Ridge Reservation lives below the federal poverty line, while unemployment ranges from 85% to 90%.