World in Focus 2007 PDN People's Choice Award

Maybe the girl draped in the Israeli flag reflected her people's past. Maybe she wondered about their future. Either way, she did not want to see the history repeated.

A Jewish teenager, part of a traveling group of students studying abroad in Israel, visits the Mausoleum of the ashes of the victims at Majdanek. His position shows the immensity of the pile. 

The sunset was beautiful over the grim campus. Majdanek is so in tact that it could be up and running in 24 hours if needed. 

The last piece of the Warsaw ghetto wall, preserved for future generations to know. Society at the time concluded the best way to deal with the Jewish problem, was to wall up their territories and keep them separate. 

A collection of the shoes belonging to the prisoners of Auschwitz. These were what was leftover in the Storage Unit called Canada I and II. It Is believed that most of the evidence was destroyed before the Soviets Liberated the death camp. This was only a fraction of the belongings that came through the infamous prison.