30 kind, crazy and simply heartbreaking photos from the pages of world history (31 photos)

History, as we know, tends to repeat itself - maybe not exactly, but some echoes of old events are heard again and again in the modern world. Old photographs and videos allow us to look into the past in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of our ancestors, and at the same time learn from them the most important thing that we now regularly forget - simply to appreciate life.





1. Woman with a handbag, 1985



This photo from Växjö, Sweden, shows 38-year-old Danuta Danielsson hitting a neo-fascist in the head with her handbag. Danielsson is of Jewish and Polish descent, and her mother survived imprisonment in a concentration camp. Danielsson wished to remain anonymous because she feared that she would become a target of other neo-fascists after the publication of the photo. Unfortunately, Danielsson had mental health problems and committed suicide in 1988 by jumping from a city water tower. In 2014, Danielsson's identity was made public and a monument was erected to honor her courage in the face of hatred.

2. Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without wearing gloves, 1991



For those years it was an unimaginable act. Many people did not yet fully understand how AIDS spread, and so most patients had to spend their entire time isolated in AIDS wards. Diana visited several of these departments to meet patients personally.

3. It's nice to know that more than 145 years ago people took funny photos of their pets. Photo from 1875



4. The boy who became a symbol of hope, 2010



Diego Frazao Torquato was born in Brazil in 1997 in the Parada de Lucas slum, a place plagued by crime and disease. At the age of 4, he was hospitalized with meningitis and pneumonia. The case was so serious that Diego suffered from memory impairment for the rest of his life. From a young age, Diego dreamed of learning to play the violin, as he believed that this would allow him to travel the world. He was introduced to Evandro Joao Silve, who led an orchestra called Afrraggae. The orchestra was created specifically to protect young children from crime. Unfortunately, years later Silva was killed in the center of Rio. Extremely saddened by the loss of his hero, Diego, being sick and weak, volunteered to play the violin at Silva's funeral to honor his memory. Unfortunately, Diego died shortly after this photo was taken, having suffered cardiac arrest caused by an infection he contracted during surgery to remove his appendix. Diego also had leukemia at the time of his death. He was only 12 years old. He is now known in his home community as a symbol of hope and inspiration to all those who, regardless of life's circumstances, fight tooth and nail to make their lives and tomorrow better.

5. “I’d rather eat pasta and drink wine than wear a small size,” Sophia Loren, 1965.



6. 18-year-old Keshia Thomas defends a white supremacist from an angry crowd during an anti-KKK rally, 1996.



Keshia later said that the man had not contacted her since then, but a few months later, a young man approached her in a coffee shop and thanked her. “For what?” she asked. “It was my dad,” said the stranger. Keshia said it was her greatest reward to know that she prevented violence and hatred from spreading to the next generation. “For the most part, people who hurt... they've been hurt in the past,” Keshia said. - It's a cycle. Let's say they would have killed him or seriously injured him. How would your son feel? Would he continue the violence? The most important thing you can do is simply show kindness to the other person. It could be something as small as making eye contact or smiling. It doesn’t have to be some huge monumental act.”

7. Robbin Williams as a Denver Broncos cheerleader, November 11, 1979



8. During World War II, Jews in Budapest were taken to the banks of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot. Now along the river bank there is a monument to the victims - 60 pairs of iron shoes



9. An outraged young patient leaves a review for the Pain-Free Dentist: “Cheater.” 1920



10. Stunned passerby at the annual Sydney Mardi Gras Pride Parade, 1994



11. Iran before the revolution, 1970s



12. The girl who forgave death, 1945



Eva Kor is a Romanian-American Jewish Holocaust survivor. In 1944, she was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where immediately upon arrival her mother, father and two sisters were taken to execution. Eva and her sister Miriam were spared because they were twins and were of interest in the eyes of the Nazi "angel of death" Josef Mangele. Eve and Miriam faced months of medical torture. They were injected with unknown liquids, the nature of which modern doctors have never been able to establish. Both girls became very ill: Eva suffered from a fever for 5 weeks and was so sick that she could not walk. The Nazis believed that she had no more than two weeks to live, but she struggled with the pain and continued to tell herself: “I have to survive, I have to survive.” In 1945, the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army, and Eva and her sister returned to Romania. In 1950, Eva moved to Israel, where she served in the army for 8 years. She then moved to the US in 1960 and married a man named Michael Core, who was also a Holocaust survivor. Over the years, Eva developed more and more health problems, and Miriam had complex and serious health problems during all three pregnancies. Doctors discovered that Miriam's kidneys stopped growing when she was 10 years old, and both organs eventually failed. The sisters theorized that this was due to the experiments they went through as children. Eva donated a kidney to her sister and said: “I have one sister and two kidneys, so it was an easy choice.” Unfortunately, Miriam died in 1993 from kidney cancer. Angered by what the Nazis did to her and her family, Eva continued to campaign for recognition of the Holocaust. However, in the 1990s, after much soul searching, she found the strength to forgive Mengele and the Nazis for the pain she and her sister had caused. Eva passed away in 2019. In the photo above, she points to herself at Auschwitz with her hooded sister Miriam standing to her left.

13. 17-year-old Juliana Köpke survived a plane crash from a height of 3 thousand meters and for 9 days alone fought for life, making her way through the jungle to people



14. In 1899, Adam Rainer was born in Austria. He occupies a unique place in the history of medicine as the only person to have been both a dwarf and a giant.



Reiner was significantly below average height from birth to adulthood; at 19 years old, his height was only 112 centimeters. However, at the age of 21, due to damage to the pituitary gland, he began to grow sharply and in just 10 years grew to almost 215 centimeters.

15. Suffragette Lady Florence Norman rides to work in London on her motor scooter in 1916



16. What the Peaky Blinders gang members really looked like



17. Eyes that saw the end of the world, 1945



Portrait of a blind Japanese girl who lost her sight after witnessing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

18. Famous wrestler Andre the Giant flies to Japan, 1980



19. Dutch in traditional dress, 1900



20. Colored pencil store in Tehran, Iran. 1990



21. She was 11 when World War I began, 36 when World War II began, 74 when Star Wars came out, and 116 when the Covid-19 pandemic began.



22. Rosemary Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's sister, had a lobotomy, after which her IQ dropped to 60-70 - the Kennedys desperately tried to hide this fact



When Rosemary was 23 and began to “rebel,” her father, Joseph Kennedy Sr., became concerned that she might bring shame to the family. He learned of a new medical procedure that he hoped would help curb it. It was about a lobotomy. After the lobotomy, her mental abilities decreased to the level of a one or two year old child. In the end, she did learn to walk again, but with a severe limp, but she never regained coherent speech. She also suffered from incontinence. Rosemary lived for another 63 years, dying at the age of 86 in 2005.

23. Kangaroo hits a photographer for trying to take his picture, 1967



24. Salvador Dali walking his anteater in Paris, 1969



25. Scientists are studying the mummy of a 15-year-old girl known as “La Doncella,” who lived in the Inca Empire.



26. According to ancient Huichol traditions, both men and women were expected to experience pain during childbirth.



The father was positioned in the rafters with a rope tied to his scrotum, which the woman in labor pulled on every time she experienced a painful contraction.

27. Dr. Zbigniew Religa after a 23-hour heart transplant operation (Poland, 1987). In the second photo, Tadeusz Zytkiewicz is holding the photograph - the patient is on the table



28. This horse was considered the largest horse in the world. In 1940, the Belgian stallion Brooklyn Supreme weighed more than 1,450 kilograms



29. A man protects his family from cannibals during the Great Indian Famine, 1877



30. 4-year-old Charles, the future Charles III, misses the coronation of his mother Elizabeth II