Holocaust survivor Naftali Furst poses at his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on November 28, 2024. Naftali First was born on November 18, 1932 in Bratislava, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia). After anti-Jewish measures were implemented in the country, the family went into hiding before being caught and sent to the Sered concentration camp in 1942. In 1944, they managed to escape but were caught once again and reinterned in Sered. In November 1944, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where the children were separated from their parents, sent to the Budy subcamp and survived a "death march" to Buchenwald. It was there that they were liberated. After the war, they were reunited with their parents who had survived as well. Naftali Furst has one daughter, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)