historicaltimes:

A Russian Girl tries to wake up her dead mother following the liberation of Ozarichi Concentration Camp – Belarus, March 1944

via reddit

Wars and rumors of wars seem a world’s distance away. We read the stories of battles, and bombs and guns. We applaud our victories and learn the communal hate of our adversaries.

Come let us reason together: for every person killed there is a father mourning, a brother weeping, a sister screaming and, perhaps, a child simply trying to wake the dead.