Lost Temples™@LostTemple7 · Jan 24, 2025

The saddest Moment ever Happened: Don’t open if you are soft hearted 🧵⚠️ 1. Human Zoo in Paris, 1905.

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A collection of 31 historical and contemporary photographs and moments depicting human suffering, tragedy, and loss—including war atrocities, natural disasters, genocide, poverty, and personal tragedies spanning from the 1800s to recent decades.

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The saddest Moment ever Happened: Don’t open if you are soft hearted 🧵⚠️ 1. Human Zoo in Paris, 1905.
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2. Aboriginal men in chain at Wyndham prison in Australia
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3. A picture from 1955 , when a father brought an African child in a cage to his children at home for entertainment
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4. Married couple separated for 54 years during World War II . The woman never remarried , but the man did and had children and grandchildren
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5. In Syria , 17 yours after the earthquake devastated the region , this 7 year old girl was found under the rubble with her hand over her little brother's head to protect him . Both made it out safely
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6. Saddest moments in swimming history Swimmer leaves early resulting in disqualification
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7. This is sad to watch
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8. Boxing saddest story of all time
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9. One of the saddest scenes in all the history
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10. People crying on the street of North Korea at the funeral of Kim Jong - II in 2011
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11. One of the saddest yet moving piece of music ever created
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12. Warning : You will cry after this
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13. French authorities exploring a Nazi torture chamber beneath the Eiffel Tower
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14. On June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in Saigon, Vietnam. He did this as a form of protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem regime which often tortured monks.
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15. A Japanese mother and child, dressed in traditional clothing, siting amid rubble and burnt trees in Hiroshima, 4 months after the Atomic Bomb was dropped. December, 1945.
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16. Security camera footage captures the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which claimed an estimated 160,000 lives.
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17. Street vendor sells mummies in Egypt ,1865
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18. Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse toward one of the ovens. Germany, April 1945.
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19. In 1921 a couple from Samara were selling human remains at a market.
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20. Nigeria 1969, a portrait of an albino child and several other children who look thin due to starvation shocked the world's conscience. Don Mcculin took this picture in Biafra, Being an albino in the midst of starvation and suffering.
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21. Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster on Jan 28, 1986, which led to the loss of lives of 8 Astronauts
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22. A little Filipino girl bound by ropes displayed in a human Coney Island Zoo
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23. A mother hiding her face as she puts her children on sale (Chicago USA, 1948).
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24. Lone Bulgarian survivor of the 1876 Batak massacre. The sign/letters are made from the bones of the massacred and reads "remains from 1876".
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25. A Soviet woman who lost seven sons during World War II.
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26. A woman condemned to die of starvation in pre-Soviet Mongolia.
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27. On the morning of December 14, 2012, Mark Barden took this photo of his son Daniel as he was getting ready for school. Tragically, later that day, Daniel was among 19 classmates and six staff members that were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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28. Heartbreaking picture💔 The last picture of Hachiko, the faithful dog who waited for over 9 years outside Shibuya Station for his master to return, even after he had d!ed, 1935.
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29. 1993 photo of a starving Sudanese child stalked by a vulture, taken by Kevin Carter. Carter won the 1994 Pulitzer for this image but died by suicide. In his suicide note, he wrote, "I am haunted by the vivid memories. of starving or wounded children..."
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30. This photo was taken of a Brazilian boy playing the violin and crying at the funeral of his teacher who rescued him from poverty and crime.
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31. A Patient Undergoing Treatment For Mental Illness, Germany 1890