The heaviest photographs of our history: 41 moving images to see absolutely in your life!
A picture is better than a thousand words but not all images have the same weight. The photos we usually present on Wanderlix can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these images are powerful. They are and unforgettable for they say long about the human condition and some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence.
As you will be able to understand, most of these photos describe parts of our recent history, our suffering and our triumphs , our perseverance and our failures , our compassion and our hatred , our intelligence and our stupid stupid ...
Some of these photos will mean more to you than to others, but we hope above all that they will remind everyone that the world always needs a little more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding.
Dear readers, know that some of these images can upset you or even shock you, while others will fill you with joy and hope.
1. An extenuated surgeon after a successful heart transplant that lasted 23 hours. Her assistant is sleeping in a corner. 
2. Inside a gas chamber of Auschwitz 
3. An alcoholic father with his son trying to raise him with rage 
4. Father and son (1949 vs. 2009) 
5. Diego Frazão Torquato, a 12-year-old Brazilian girl, plays the crying violin at the funeral of his teacher. The latter had helped him escape poverty and violence through music 
6. A Russian soldier playing on an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994 
7. A young man just learned that his brother was killed 
8. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the middle of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt 
9. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating bush fires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009 
10. A Sudanese girl starving by a vulture 
11. A soldier finds his daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months 
12. Indian homeless people waiting to receive free food from outside a mosque before the Aïd al-Fitr in New Delhi, India 
13. The funeral of Zanjeer, the dog who saved thousands of lives during the 1993 explosions in Mumbai, India. He had discovered more than 3329 kg of explosives, 600 detonators, 249 grenades and 6406 real bullets 
14. "The Falling Man." A man whispering from the World Trade Center after the planes hit the two rounds of New York on 11 September 2001 
15. A hungry boy gives his hand to a missionary 
16. A couple embracing in the rubble of a collapsed plant 
17. Sunset on Mars 
18. A small gypsy smoking a cigarette in the New Year 2006 in the Saint Jacques district of Perpignan, France 
19. Hhaing Le Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand, while the rain continues to fall on the decimated remains of his home near the Burmese capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, Hurricane Nargis struck the south of Burma, leaving millions of homeless people and killing more than 100,000 victims. 
20. A dog named "Leao" sits for the second consecutive day on the tomb of his master, who died in catastrophic landslides near Rio de Janeiro in 2011 
21. This photo "Wait For Me Daddy" ("Wait me Daddy") by Claude P. Dettloff, New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940 
22. A Russian veteran of the Second World War finally found the tank in which he spent the whole war, exposed in a small town of Russia as a monument 
23. A protester putting flowers in the gun barrel of the law enforcement forces. This photo dates from 21 October 1967 during the march for the Pentagon Event 
24. A woman sits in the midst of debris caused by a violent earthquake and the tsunami that followed, in Natori, north of Japan in March 2011 
25. The tombs of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband in the Netherlands, 1888 
26. Greg Cook kisses his dog Coco after having found it inside his house destroyed in the Alabama following the tornado in March 2012 
27. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Koursk in July 1943 
28. During the heavy floods in the city of Cuttack, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved many wandering cats by transporting them with a balance basket on his head 
29. An Afghan offers tea to American soldiers 
30. Parents, probably over 70 years old today, still looking for their missing child 
31. An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during the Troubles in Northern Ireland 
32. A woman from the Mursi tribe discovers Vogue magazine in Ethiopia 
33. A black child with a punk, visibly in France 
34. Sisters pose for the same photo for different years... 
35. A monk prays for an elderly man who died suddenly waiting for a train to Taiyuan, China 
36. On October 16, 1968, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City, a controversy broke out at the end of the men's 200-metre final. U.S. riders Tommie Smith and John Carlos arrived first and third of the 200 metre protest against racial segregation in the United States by lowering their heads and pointing, during the American anthem, their gloved fist to the sky on the podium of the medals. These will eventually be excluded for life from the Olympic Games 
37. A North Korean shakes his hand while a South Korean cry on the dock following a meeting at the temporary family meetings held between the two countries on Mount Kumgang on 31 October 2010. 466 South Koreans were allowed to spend 3 days in North Korea to review their 97 North Korean relatives from which they were separated since the War of 1950-1953 
38. A mother consoles her son in Concord, Alabama, near her house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April 2011 
39. The prisoner of war Horace Greasley defies Heinrich Himmler in an inspection of the camp where he was locked. Greasley is also famous for escaping from the camp and coming back more than 200 times to secretly meet a local German girl with whom he fell in love 
40. Robert Peraza stops where his son’s name is listed on the 11-September Memorial at the tenth anniversary ceremonies on the World Trade Center website 
41. The agony of Omayra Sánchez, trapped in the remains of his home after the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in 1985 
What do these photos inspire you? Don’t hesitate to comment and share!
Sources: BuzzFeed , Distractivey, Bored Panda , LifeBuzz
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