This is Sławomir Rawicz who with 6 others escaped from a Russian work camp and trekked 6,500 km from Siberia to India to escape the Soviet Union. He later wrote “the long walk”. taken around 1956 [634 X 420]

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Another image found in my Great, Great Grandparents old hatbox. Selby High Street – off to War (Circa 1914) [3240 × 2048]

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Polish teacher Władysław Bieliński moments before he was executed by the Germans, 1939. [1024 X 576]

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After the assassination of senator and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy in 1968, many people went to see his funeral train as it traveled with his family from New York to Washington. [1200×841]

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The opening ceremony at the first (modern) Olympic Games – Athens, Greece 1896 [640×427]

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Bombardier Lt Paul Chryst returning from a mission in the B-17 “Time’s-A-Wastin'”, 91st Bomb Group, 401st Bomb Squadron – 1944 [5317 x 3522]

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