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An unidentified boy raises his arms as German soldiers capture Polish Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943.

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Human bones litter the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland following its liberation by Soviet forces on July 24, 1944.

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In celebration of Japan's surrender, a U.S. Navy sailor kisses a women during festivities in New York City on August 14, 1945.

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Two women stand amid the leveled ruins of the almshouse that was their home before a German bombing raid destroyed it in Newbury, England on February 11, 1943.

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The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. on August 9, 1945.

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Burnt bodies lie on the grounds of the Thekla concentration subcamp, outside Leipzig, Germany, April 1945.

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Roger Godfrin, the only survivor of a massacre during which Nazi troops locked 643 citizens (including 500 women and children) inside a church and set fire to it on June 10, 1944 in Oradour sur Glane, France.

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Soviet soldiers charge during the Siege of Leningrad, January 1, 1943.

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French women accused of collaborating with the Nazis have their heads shaved by French Resistance fighters in Paris on June 21, 1944.

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A young boy greets his father, a soldier allowed to return home for Christmas, 1944.