A review by readwatchcrochet
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

fast-paced

5.0

Eddie Jaku shares his journey through life, including his experience as a Jewish man in concentration camps. Through it all, he continues to focus on how life can still be beautiful. 

“This was Germany, 1938 - completely transformed, no morals, no respect, no human decency.

|Thoughts|
This was an engaging and eye opening look into one man’s experience during World Was  II and beyond. 

“We were heading to a concentration camp in Poland. This was the first time I heard the name Auschwitz”

Just when you think nothing else could go wrong for him, something else inevitably happens. 

Did learn a bit about life in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. And would recommend this as an unique first hand perspective on the war. 

“If you have the opportunity today, please go home and tell her much how much you love her. Do this for your mother. And do it for your new friend Eddie, who cannot tell it to his mother”. 

The absolute atrocity that we’re concentration camps. It’s hard to imagine that humans can do that to others. Gas chambers, medical experiments, sterilisation…It is also crazy tk thing that Holocaust deniers actually exist. 

“There are now deniers of the Holocaust, people who don’t believe that it ever happened. Where do they think six million of us went?”

“Every day, remember to be happy…make yourself a friend to the world. Do this for your new friend, Eddie”