Jewish families being taken from the Warsaw ghetto to extermination camps at Majdanek or Treblinka, May 1943

An American mortar team fire shells over a ridge onto Japanese positions during the battle of Attu in the Aleutian islands, May 1943.

Tuberculosis patients from St. Thomas’ Hospital rest in their beds in the open air by the River Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament in May 1936.

Polish troops plant their flag atop Monte Cassino, the lynchpin of the German Gustav Line, as the combined Allied forces pushed their way north through Italy towards Rome, May 1944

🇬🇧 Nelson's Column under construction at Trafalgar Square, London. 1844, colourized

🇩🇰 The Danish flag being raised at Danas Plads in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 5 May 1945 to celebrate Denmark's liberation from Nazi occupation.

Emaciated and overcrowded prisoners from Ebensee concentration camp following the camp's liberation by the American 80th Infantry Regiment, May 1945

The Hindenburg floats over Manhattan Island in New York City on May 6, 1937, just hours from disaster in nearby New Jersey.

🇳🇱 Dutch crowds celebrating the liberation of Amersfoort on 7 May 1945

Girls dressed in kilts from the Flora McDonald College in North Carolina doing a May dance, c. 1910s

V-E day celebrations on Allington Road in Bristol, UK, 8 May 1945.

V-E Day Celebrations in Philadelphia at the end of WWII, 8 May 1945 (colourised)

Gypsy children playing violins on the street, 1930s

A boy with freshly picked strawberries, Missouri, 1943

The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; at the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Members of a US Army armored division pose with a captured German tank and banner, Tunisia, May, 1943

17th century painting depicting Alexander the Great charging to victory against the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus, May 334 BC. (artist: Charles Le Brun)

Thatched cottages in the village of Claddagh, Galway, Ireland, c. 1880s-1910s

An Inuit (Eskimo) mother and child, Alaska, 1905

A mother and her children spending an afternoon in a park, c. 1909