Eddie Jaku OAM, born in 1920 to a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany.

Eddie Jaku OAM, born Abraham Jakubowicz in 1920, survived WWII imprisonment in Nazi camps, escaped a death march in 1945, and moved to Australia in 1950.

He was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany. He died on 12 October 2021 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

He volunteered at the Sydney Jewish Museum from 1992 until 2020, and authored the best-selling memoir The Happiest Man on Earth in 2020, translated into 37 languages.

he was 14 in 1934, when Hitler had already been in power a year and Eddie was expelled from school for being Jewish; at 18 he was beaten on Kristallnacht, at 19 sent to Buchenwald, and at 25 he escaped a death march.