Leon Schwarzbaum, a Polish Jew who survived the extermination camps during the Holocaust, will take part in the exciting docu-film of the German daily "Bild" • "I did not believe I would reach the age of one hundred"
Leon Schwarzbaum was born on February 20, 1921 in Hamburg.
As a Polish Jew, he survived the Nazi "death factories" in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, forced labor, and two death marches.
He lost his entire family in the Holocaust - and this year celebrates his 100th birthday: "I would not believe that I would ever reach that age after all."
Documentary of the BILD: Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz celebrates 100
The documentary of the popular German daily "Bild" pays homage to Leon Schwarzbaum as one of the last survivors of the mass murder of European Jews.
German President Frank-Voltar Steinmeier welcomed Holocaust survivor to Berlin's presidential palace.
The President thanked him for his tremendous contribution to Germany, as a man who passes on the hope to future generations that what will happen will never happen.
In the moving documentary "Bild", made by the senior correspondent of the Hans-Jürgen Wallwald newspaper, Schwarzbaum recounts the Germans' entry into his Polish hometown in Upper Silesia, the ghetto and the atrocities of Auschwitz, the time he performed forced labor for the Siemens Company and his release by soldiers. .
He explains why he has not been able to talk for decades about the murder of his family and those who perished from his people.
Schwarzbaum says: "Sometimes I am ashamed that I was saved and others not. I must tell what I went through to my friends who lost their lives in the camps. I do it for the sake of my murdered parents. I do it for the sake of my people."