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Beginning in 1932, Oskar Speck kayaked 50,000km over seven years from Germany to Australia. Just three weeks before his arrival in Australia, Germany invaded Poland. Upon his arrival, he was congratulated, then arrested by Australian police and spent the duration of the war in a POW camp
Avoid pampering kids // USSR // 1980s
Crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960.
My mom, at 25 years old. Today she is 85. Happy birthday mom!
Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960).
Historical photo of an Autoped in use by a traffic cop in Newark, New Jersey, 1922
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Swedish weightlifter rejoices after successfully lifting weights at the Olympic Games in Montreal, 1976 .
A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941. The victim is sitting on the edge of an excavation with many dead bodies inside. This image is titled “The last Jew in Vinnitsa”. Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor an American born in Pennsylvania who travelled to Afghanistan with the intention of making himself a king. He failed. (1838-1845)
Capitalism: I’m sorry, but I don’t see poverty in our free world. // Soviet Union // 1960s
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.
“The Republican is the Platform of the Negro”-1861
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