Some of the Heart-Breaking Moments captured on camera.🧵 A Thread Not for the soft-hearted ⚠️

Some of the Heart-Breaking Moments captured on camera.🧵 A Thread Not for the soft-hearted ⚠️

2. Married couple separated for 54 years during World War II. The woman never remarried, but the man did and had children and grandchildren.

3. 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. This image is considered one of the most emotional photographs in modern history

4. 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...

5. A high school football star spent 6 years in prison on a false rape charge, which was dismissed after his 16 yr old accuser admitted the incident was fabricated. He was deeply emotional when the case was dropped.

6. Harrowing photo shows a man guarding his family from cannibals during The Madras famine of 1877 in India.

7. A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904.

8. In Syria, 17 hours 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.

9. A Congolese girl in a "human zoo" at the Brussels World's Fair in Belgium in 1958.

10. A Soviet woman who lost seven sons during World War II.

11. George McLaurin, the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma, is separated from white students, 1948.

12. The Kiss of Life Randall Champion accidentally touched a live wire, causing a fatal electric shock that stopped his heart. Fellow lineman J.D. Thompson gave CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.

13. A mother hiding her face as she puts her children on sale (Chicago USA, 1948).

14. Human Zoo in Paris, 1905. The human Zoo definitely existed mainly in Europe and America both Asians, indigenous people of America and Africans were being displayed.

15. Harrowing & demeaning video of a man being used as a table

16. A 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. Bridges is 70 years old today.

17. Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the DRC, was assassínated in 1961 with the involvement of Belgian authorities, who opposed his leadership. His body was dismẹmbered, dissoIved in acid, and his teeth were taken as trophies.

18. Saying goodbye to a subspecies, the very last male Northern White Rhino. The great beast is now functionally extinct. A powerful photo of 2018.

19. A Japanese boy waiting in line at the crematorium with his deceased baby brother on his back, Nagasaki, 1945.

20. A picture from 1955, when a father brought an African child in a cage to his children at home for entertainment.

21. An 83-year-old retired Marine kept the promise he made to his friend while in a bunker in Vietnam, and stood guard one last time.

22. A well-dressed Sudanese man steals maise from a crippled hungry boy outside the feeding center.

23. King Leopold II of Belgium ruled Congo as his private property for long years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation.

24. A little Filipino girl bound by ropes displayed in a human Coney Island Zoo.

25. Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of  lives during the Mumbai serial blasts in 1993, he detected more then 3.3Kg of explosives, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition, he was given an honor burial in 2000.