The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

by Eddie Jaku

Book Overview

A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063097699
• ISBN13: 9780063097698
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

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"There are people who will tell you that this world is bad, that all people have evil inside them, who take no joy from life. These people have not been liberated. Their broken bodies may have walked from the camps 75 years ago, but their broken hearts stayed there. I know survivors who have never been fortunate enough to feel the freedom that comes from putting the burden of suffering down in order to be able to bear up their happiness." Eddie Jaku at 100 years old writes an abbreviated account of his time in concentration camps till his life now. The man's mindset from the roundup, the beatings, starvings, & human depravity at the hands of the Nazis helped him survive. Each chapter deals with a subject and has words of wisdom that helped him survive and encouragement from Eddie revealing his struggles with having almost his entire family wiped out, living as a German & a Jew, & overcoming so many adversities.