Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 293, click here.
1. A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India.
2. Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church between 1930 and 1970.
3. Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 1960s-2000s.
4. A makeshift hospital in the Vietnam War, 1970.
5. Soviet soldiers celebrate returning home alive, 1945.
6. Queen Victoria, the “grandmother of Europe”, with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, and future King Edward VII in one large royal family snapshot, 1894.
7. BBC War Correspondent Robin Duff makes a recording during the D-Day landings, 1944.
8. A South Korean soldier forcibly cuts a young man’s hair in front of others during a nationwide crackdown on men with long hair and women wearing short skirts in South Korea, the 1970s.
9. A Nazi DJ spins records at a trade show to promote the German record industry in 1932.
10. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is imprisoned for euthanizing a consenting terminally ill patient, 1993.
