Ti, kdo přežili - Skutečný příběh mladého vězně ze světoznámé fotografie, který přežil hrůzy Osvětimi – Bornstein Michael (2019)

That's me in that photograph - the little boy in the front right. As a four-year-old, I managed to escape destruction in a death factory at a time when over a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. I was one of the youngest prisoners to come out of the Auschwitz concentration camp alive. That photograph is taken from films shot by Soviet soldiers after Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945. In that photograph, I am in a group of children, showing the cameraman the numbers that were tattooed on our arms upon arrival at the camp. Of the two thousand eight hundred and nineteen prisoners liberated by the Russians, only fifty-two were under the age of eight. For most of my life, I couldn't answer even the most basic question: How did I survive in a camp where children were killed immediately upon arrival? How did I avoid the death march that cleared the camp, which held sixty thousand prisoners, just a few days before the Soviet army arrived? Now I know everything. With the help of my journalist daughter, I have uncovered my story and the fates of my relatives that I had kept in my mind for more than half a century. Michael Bornstein