About Author
Eddie Jaku OAM was born Abraham Jakubowicz in Germany in 1920. In World War Two, Eddie was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. In 1945, he was sent on a 'death march' but escaped. Finally, he was rescued by Allied soldiers. In 1950 he moved with his family to Australia where he has lived since. Eddie has volunteered at the Sydney Jewish Museum since its inception in 1992. Eddie has been married to his wife Flore for 74 years. They have two sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. In 2020, Eddie celebrated his 100th birthday.
Summary
What makes a genuinely cheerful individual? In the event that you ask Eddie Jaku, it is essentially the choice to pick joy over trouble, scorn, and misery.
Also, Eddie should know, for, from the most obscure and most disheartening of times when he lost all that he held dear, he pushed ahead and turned into a glad man - a man who spreads bliss any place he goes.
Be that as it may, Eddie isn't some advanced age master spruiking new age ideas. He's a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor who has lived in Australia for a very long time with his dearest spouse Flore, brought up his kids, and been honored with grandkids and extraordinary grandkids. He has run organizations and been an integral part of his local area.
Eddie picked satisfaction in light of the fact that the option was to live with disdain, and keeping in mind that disdain could undoubtedly have been Eddie's story, all things considered, in honor and memory of the 6,000,000 who passed on and for the love of his family, he decided not to accept that antagonism - picking rather to carry on with the best life he could and to offer back at whatever point and at every possible opportunity.
"I have lived for a century, and I understand what it is to look straight at evil. I have seen the most noticeably awful in humankind, the detestations of the concentration camps, the Nazi endeavors to eradicate my life, and the existences of every one of my kin
"However, I presently view myself as the most joyful man on Earth.
"Through the entirety of my years I have taken in this: life can be wonderful in the event that you make it delightful." Eddie Jaku
This is Eddie's plan to the existence of joy.
The Happiest Man on Earth is the journal of an astounding individual. On occasion, it is trying to peruse as it is hard for the greater part of us to envision the mercilessness and contempt which roused the Nazi system, yet it is additionally unputdownable.
Eddie's recollections and depiction of the concentration camps are genuinely ghastly and how anybody endures such conditions is phenomenal. In any case, all through the account, there are numerous memories of little kindnesses - and unfortunately, Eddie ought to recall these when he consistently was frightfulness in bodily form and a fight for endurance.
Eddie Jaku OAM was conceived by Abraham Jakubowicz in Germany in 1920. He generally viewed himself as a German initial, a Jew second. He was glad for his country. In any case, the entirety of that changed on November 9, 1938, when he was beaten, captured, and taken to a death camp.
Throughout the following seven years, Eddie confronted impossible detestations consistently, first in Buchenwald, at that point in Auschwitz, at that point on the Nazi demise walk. At last he was protected by Allied troopers yet he had lost family, companions, his country.
Eddie concedes that after the conflict he was certifiably not a cheerful man. "Truth be told, I didn't know why I was as yet alive, or in the event that I really needed to live." All that changed anyway when he held his oldest child in his arms interestingly.
". it was a supernatural occurrence. In that one second, my heart was mended and my bliss returned in wealth. From that day on I understood I was the most fortunate man on Earth. I made the guarantee that from that day until the finish of my life, I would be glad, well mannered, accommodating, and kind. I would grin."
In 1950 Eddie moved to Australia where he has lived since. He has been hitched to Flore for a very long time. They have two children and numerous grandkids and extraordinary grandkids.
Eddie has chipped in at the Sydney Jewish Museum since its initiation in 1992. He traversed the nation moving crowds with his account of endurance and sharing his message of resistance, getting, benevolence, fellowship, and mankind.
Eddie has absolutely not forgotten the past nor, he focuses, has he forgiven.... however, he doesn't loathe.
"So I disdain nobody, not even Hitler. I don't excuse him. In the event that I pardon, I am a swindler to the 6,000,000 who died.....When I say this, I represent the 6,000,000 who can't represent themselves. Yet, I additionally live for them, and carry on with the best life I can."
Eddie presently accepts he is the 'most joyful man on earth.
Distributed as Eddie turns 100, this is an amazing, terrible, and at last confident journal of how bliss can be found even in the haziest of times.
It's a story that differentiates the brightness and strength of a liberal and respectable soul with the debasement of the individuals who embraced the doctrine of disdain.
The Happiest Man on Earth gives life exercises to us all.
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