BERLIN (AP) — Margot Friedländer, a German Jew who

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who serves as a navigator for evacuation missions after losing his right arm in battle, holds up a rifle in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Andrii Serhieiev, foreground, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, works with another soldier to detonate unexploded ordnance near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Andrii Serhieiev, foreground, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, works with another soldier to detonate unexploded ordnance near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Maksym Vysotskyi had just completed a drone mission in November 2023 when he took a detour after heavy rains turned the battlefield into a swamp and stepped on a land mine.The explosion was instantaneous. When he looked down at his left leg, all he saw was bone.

“I quickly accepted the fact that my leg was gone. What’s the point of mourning? Crying and worrying won’t bring it back,” the 42-year-old says.Maksym Vysotskyi, a Ukrainian drone unit commander who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, watches as soldiers load a drone into a car after a test flight in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Maksym Vysotskyi, a Ukrainian drone unit commander who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, watches as soldiers load a drone into a car after a test flight in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

By May, he was back in uniform, describing the feeling as “returning home.”, 93. The matriarch of the iconic Italian fashion house that made colorful zigzag-patterned knitwear high fashion and helped launch Italian ready-to-wear. Jan. 1.

, 67. A self-help guru whose multimillion-dollar business toppled after he led a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona that left three people dead. Jan. 3., 88. A former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro. Jan. 5.

, 96. The founder of France’s far-right National Front was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him staunch supporters and widespread condemnation. Jan. 7., 86. The singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war. Jan. 7.