Below are 30 of the most powerful photos that you will ever see. Taken from around the world, these photographs provide a glimpse of heartbreaking and heartwarming stories that will be remembered forever.
A sibling finding out that his brother had just been killed. [Image: Nhat V. Meyer ]
A man jumps from the World Trade Center following the attacks on 9/11. [Image: Richard Drew /AP ]
A missionary holds the hand of a starving young boy. Image credits: Mike Wells
A young boy attempts to help his alcoholic father stand up. [Image: imgur.com ]
A man clings to a woman underneath the rubble of a collapsed building. [Image: Taslima Akhter ]
The surface of Mars. [Image: nasa.gov ]
A dog waits by the gravesite of his owner after the landslides in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. [Image: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images]
A man weeps after his home is destroyed following the cyclone that hit his home in Myanmar in 2008. [Image: Brian Sokol ]
A young gypsy boy in France in 2006 where it is common for young boys to smoke in their communities. [Image: Jesco Denzel ]
A young child runs after his father while marching through New Westminister, Canada in 1940. [Image: Claud Detloff ]
A Russian World War II soldier reunites with the tank he used throughout the war. [Image: englishrussia.com ]
The walls inside of an Auschwitz gas chamber following World War II. [Image: kligon5 ]
A man hugs his dog after they are reunited when a tornado struck Alabama in 2012. [Image: Gary Cosby Jr. / AP]
Holland, 1888- The grave of A Protestant man and a Catholic woman. [Image: retronaut.com]
Parents still looking for their daughter that disappeared in 1969. [Image: reddit.com ]
Men of Papua being shown how to properly use a condom in a public market in 2009. [Image: Adri Tambunan ]
A soldier prepares for war in 1943. [Image: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein ]
A man carries kittens across a flooded area in Cuttack City, India in 2011. [Image: Biswaranjan Rout / AP ]
Vietnam protester places a flower in the barrel of the rifles carried by National Guardsmen. [Image: Bernie Boston ]
Chechnya- Russian soldier plays an abandoned piano in 1994. [Image: drugoi.livejournal.com ]
A man offers a drink to soldiers in Afghanistan. [Image: Rafiq Maqbool / AP]
A heart surgeon rests after a successful 23-hour-long heart transplant. [Image: James Stanfield ]
A young woman grieves in the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. [Image: Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP ]
Zanjeer the service dog is buried with full honors as he saved countless lives during the Mumbai serial blasts by detecting explosives.
[Image: STR News / Reuters ]
Cairo, Egypt- Christians form a circle of protection around a group of Muslims during the uprisings of 2011. [Image: Nevine Zaki ]
A young boy plays at his music teachers funeral that had helped him to break free of the poverty and violence in his community. [Image: salvemasnossascriancas.blogspot.com]
A Father and son recreating a photo taken of them in 1949. [Image: Vojage-Vojage ]
A firefighter offers fresh water to a koala after the devastating fires that took place in Australia in 2009. [Image: abc.net.au ]
Homeless men in New Delhi, India wait to receive free food outside of a mosque. [Image: Tsering Topgyal / AP]
A soldier reunited with her daughter after serving overseas for seven months. [Image: Louie Favorite ]
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