TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaku,Eddie
TI  - Happiest man on Earth: the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor
SN  - 9781529066364
U1  - 929 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Macmillan
KW  - Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
KW  - Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - Nazi concentration camp inmates
KW  - Biography
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Australia
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Autobiography
N2  - Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.

‘Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming’ – Daily Express

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.

Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.

Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country.

The Happiest Man on Earth is a powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times
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