30 rare historical photos that immerse you in the atmosphere of the past (31 photos)

Nothing brings the past to life like photographs. These moments, frozen in time, can tell many stories without a single word. Here are little-known images from bygone eras.





1. In October 1943, Ottla Kafka, the beloved sister of writer Franz Kafka, volunteered to accompany orphans from the Terezin ghetto to the Auschwitz concentration camp so that they would not be afraid. She was gassed immediately upon arrival



2. Sabina Cibichi, the Kenyan athlete who won the 1973 barefoot and dress race





3. Tasmanian native Fanny Cochrane Smith singing into a phonograph in 1903 year



Without her efforts, we would not have the sound heritage of the Tasmanian language.

4. Dance teacher Patsy Swayze (center) with her daughter-in-law Lisa Niemi and son Patrick Swayze, 1978



5. In Memory of Father



6. First Interracial Marriage in Mississippi, 1970 year



7. Marilyn Monroe without makeup, 1955



8. Barack Obama in a pirate costume with his mother Stanley Ann, 1960s years



9. Actress Jane Russell paints a portrait of Marilyn Monroe during a break from filming Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953



10. A sailor meets his baby for the first time after fourteen months at sea, 1940s years



11. Girl from Luzon Island, Philippines



12. London, 1940, girl with doll among ruins of house



13. Dorothy Counts is the first black student accepted to an all-white school, 1957



14. A girl in Oaxaca, Mexico, notices that her photo is being taken, 1985



15. Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, August 26 1926



16. Faces of Auschwitz, 1940



17. Girlfriends on the beach, 1940s



18. Child in a monkey mask, 1920s



19. In Arviat, Nunavut (Northern Canada), an Inuit woman descends into an igloo, 1949



20. Princesses of Egypt and Queens of Iran Fawzia Fuad, 1939



21. Wedding rings of Buchenwald prisoners found by American soldiers, May 5, 1945



22. 112-year-old Teimuraz Vanacha, a veteran of World War I and the Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, 1980



23. Until 1956, French schoolchildren were served wine with dinner



24. A man searches for books in the Cincinnati Public Library. The building was torn down in 1955



25. In 1993, James Scott intentionally damaged a dam and caused massive flooding on the Mississippi River in order to throw a party with friends and prevent his wife from returning home



American sentenced to life imprisonment.

26. Brothers Michel and Edmond Navratil, Titanic Orphans, 1912



27. Mother and Daughter, 1900s



28. Margaret Ann Neave, an American who died in 1902 at the age of 110. This woman was born in 1792, meaning she lived through three centuries



29. Queen Marie of Romania, 1896



30. Mayan women in the Yucatan Peninsula, 1952