He added: ” We always thought it was quite remarkable, especially as the years wore on because he had been so well for so long, he was lucky to have a charmed old age, and it’s only very recently that it caught up with him. It wasn’t like oh where’s Dad – he’s off again because half the time I was there with him.Īnd even at the Monte, where he resided for the last few years., I’ve been a volunteer for the last 10 years.” I’m still a volunteer for the Museum, the Board of Deputies where I was the chair of the Shoah Remembrance Committee, and he was often active with the Board of Deputies, as a Holocaust survivor. We were both on the board of the Holocaust Survivors Association and The Sydney Jewish Museum where he was the celebrity guide. He said: “Even though we were sharing him, a lot of the things that he did, I certainly was interested in those same things. J-Wire asked Michael Jaku about what personal memories, he will take into the future given that in Eddie’s later days, his family had to share his father with the community. The Happiest Man has been published in more than 30 languages including India, Japan, China, all the Baltic states, all the Scandinavian states, and then naturally the ones you’d expect, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the UK, the United States. His son Michael told J-Wire: “He had heart problems more than three months ago, but he had had a successful, miraculous operation which fixed all that, but when you’re 101, you know your days are numbered.” The Happiest Man was the biography Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards.
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The 101-yr-old who survived Auschwitz achieved unexpected worldwide fame following the publication of his book The Happiest Man on Earth which created inspiration for hundreds and thousands who read it.Įddie was a pillar of awe as he retold and retold his Holocaust memories to thousands who visited the Sydney Jewish Museum including a huge number of school students.Įddie Jaku wrote: “This is my message, as long as I live, I’ll teach not to hate.”