Naftali Fürst is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of an elder walking down an unpaved and rocky mountain road in Nangalem, Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of three former Army nurses — who are all survivors of the Bataan Death March — at the march’s survivors reunion in Darmstadt, Germany on April 8, 1949.

The long, painful trek to San Fernando described by a General who was there.

Decades of investigation yielded nothing until a recovery team in May and June 2024 discovered life support equipment, aircraft wreckage and bone tissue at a site in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of Staff Sgt. Anna Berber-Giddings of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion showing the Iraqi-made steel door meant to provide some blast protection to an unarmored Humvee in Iraq on Feb. 1, 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a young girl helping out her family by running errands, carrying a pan of cheese in her remote village just across the border from Pakistan in October 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a reader in Europe taking a moment to read about the second inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson on Jan. 21, 1965.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a Marine launching a volley of paintball shots during a paintball game at Camp Hansen’s Paintball Range in Camp Hansen, Okinawa on Sept. 19, 2002.

Here is a photo of director David Lynch at a press conference in Tokyo, in town to promote his latest film “Dune,” based on Frank Herbert’s best-selling science fiction novel.