Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939. - History Education Network

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Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947

Joseph Stalin wearing a traditional Mongolian deel, 1936.

Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939.

Categories: Racism, WW2

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