One Montreal man who's marking is marking his 100th birthday says the milestone is special, not just because he survived the Holocaust, but because of how he did.

An auction house is offering a collection of documents from Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jewish workers at his factories during World War II, including a letter he signed that paved the way for the rescue chronicled in the 1993 movie "Schindler's List."