"I never thought that after all this I would live to be 100..." But Leon Schwarzbaum made it. He survived the murder factories in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen. Forced labor, two death marches. He lost his entire family in the Holocaust - and yet he is now celebrating his 100th birthday. A major BILD documentary honors Leon Schwarzbaum as one of the last survivors of the murder of millions of Europe's Jews. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (65) even received Schwarzbaum at Bellevue Palace, thanking him for his "tremendous service to our country" because he carries on "hope to future generations" that "what can happen will never happen again." In the moving BILD documentary by chief reporter Hans-Jörg Vehlewald, Schwarzbaum (born on February 20, 1921 in Hamburg) reports on the German invasion of his Polish hometown of Bedzin near Katowice in Upper Silesia. About the ghetto, the horror in Auschwitz, how he escaped the gas chambers. About his time as a forced laborer at Siemens. And why he was unable to speak for decades about the mass murder of his family, of his people. Schwarzbaum: "Sometimes I am ashamed that I survived and the others did not. I owe it to my friends who died in the camp to tell them about my experiences. I am doing this for my parents, who were murdered. I am doing this for my people." EN: Auschwitz survivor celebrates his 100th birthday: He lost his entire family in the Holocaust • Auschwitz survivor celebrates his 100... PL: Ocalały z Oświęcimia obchodzi swoje 100. urodziny. Stracił całą rodzinę w Holokauście. • Ocalały z Oświęcimia obchodzi swoje 1... HE: ניצול שואה מאושוויץ חוגג יום הולדת 100: הוא עיבד את כל המשפחה שלו בשואה. • ניצול שואה מאושוויץ חוגג יום הולדת 10... #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Survivor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ???? Subscribe to our channel now and activate the bell! ???? “The invisible enemy” – How Corona has changed Germany The 4-part BILDplus documentary: https://on.bild.de/37nf03H ???? "The Snow King" - From policeman's son to drug boss: The German Pablo Escobar now tells EVERYTHING - https://on.bild.de/32XIq7a ???? Undercover agent "Miami Gianni" spills the beans: Undercover between pimps, rockers and clans - https://on.bild.de/3dZGq0K ???? "Blind hatred - How does a normal boy become a killer neo-Nazi?" - the BILDplus documentary about the Halle attacker Stephan Balliet: https://on.bild.de/39fSLgK ???? The best documentaries with BILDplus can be found here: https://on.bild.de/BILDvideothek ???? Follow our moderators: Nele Würzbach / nele.wuerzbach Patricia Platiel: / patricia.platiel Sina Stinshoff / sina_stinshoff Claus Strunz: / clausstrunz Moritz Wedel / moritzwedel ????‍???? Imprint: https://on.bild.de/impressum #BILD #Nachrichten #News