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Australia s most powerful figures pay tribute to Holocaust survivor, 101, at packed funeral service

Australia s most influential figures flocked to Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday to pay tribute to Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, 101, who escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany for a better life in Australia.

Eddie Jaku dies aged 101

Many have paid tribute to the celebrated centenarian, including Treasurer Josh Frydenberg who said Mr Jaku educated others about the dangers of intolerance and the importance of hope.

Friendship His Key to Survival at Auschwitz - San Diego Jewish World

San Diego Jewish World Main Menu May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 / 1 Comment The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku; HarperCollins Publishers © 2021; ISBN 9780063-097681; 195 pages, $24.99. By Donald H. Harrison Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This memoir by Australian centenarian Eddie Jaku departs from memoirs by other Holocaust survivors in its contemplation of the role of friendship in enabling prisoners of Nazi concentration camps to survive. Jaku had met Kurt Hirschfeld, a fellow German Jew, when both were interned in Buchenwald shortly after Kristallnacht.  Their ways parted when the Nazis decided to take advantage of Jaku’s skills as a mechanical engineer.  Jaku was supposed to report to an aeronautical factory in Dessau, but instead he escaped to Belgium with other members of his family. But in 1940 Germany invaded Belgium, and Jaku escaped to Vichy France.  But he was soon rounded up and sent to Ausch

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