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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: In the morning, we are honored to catch up with

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Speaker 2: our next guest. He's the Holocaust survivor who's spreading a

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Speaker 2: message of hope and happiness despite living through the horrors

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Speaker 2: of Auschwitz. He was the only member of his family

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Speaker 2: to survive the Holocaust. He's one hundred year old author,

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Speaker 2: brand new author known as the happiest man on Earth.

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Speaker 2: Eddie Jaku, Hello, Hello, how about you being an author

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Speaker 2: at one hundred Did you ever imagine that would be

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Speaker 2: your story?

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Speaker 1: I never wanted to write a book, but when I

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Speaker 1: see what's going on in the world now, I said,

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Speaker 1: I have to put my message on paper because we

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Speaker 1: have to eradicate hate. Hate is a disease, and education

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Speaker 1: doesn't start at school, it started at home. The people

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Speaker 1: are too often using this world hate I have offered.

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Speaker 1: Because of this world hate, Hitler has created hate in

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Speaker 1: a country which I loved because it was the most civilized,

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Speaker 1: most cultured, and certainly the most educated country in Europe.

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Speaker 3: And you were front and center when that happened. You

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Speaker 3: would have been sixteen there bats when Hitler came to.

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Speaker 1: Power, thirteen thirteen, when I came in power. The first

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Speaker 1: thing happened to me. I was in a school called

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Speaker 1: leibniz Kymnasium. My grandfather went to that school and I

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Speaker 1: was kicked out in October nineteen thirty three, thirteen and

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Speaker 1: a half years of age because I was Jewish. I

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Speaker 1: didn't think that was a difference. I was German first

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Speaker 1: and German second, and Jewish at home. Jewish is a religion,

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Speaker 1: not a race. I'm white like you. We were the

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Speaker 1: most assimilated community anywhere in the world. I lost two

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Speaker 1: and a grandfather fighting for Germany in fourteen eighteen, and

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Speaker 1: all my life I ask why, and for a hundred

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Speaker 1: years I haven't found them out.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you this, Eddie? Is being happy a choice?

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Speaker 2: You could easily have hated what happened to your family

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Speaker 2: and what hated to you. Is it a choice? And

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at this in the context of what we're

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Speaker 2: going through in our world. Now we can choose forgiveness

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Speaker 2: and choose happiness.

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Speaker 1: Correct, You're quite right. If I would come out of

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Speaker 1: the camp alive as I did nearly dead and would

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Speaker 1: not hate, then I fall in their footsteps. That's what

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Speaker 1: they wanted me. Didn't matter for them that I hate

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Speaker 1: them because They were powerful, and I was powerless. The

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Speaker 1: world stood still and let the German do a dirty job.

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Speaker 1: They knew exactly what happened. The Nazi party in Germany

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Speaker 1: was so small that could be crushed if somebody were

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Speaker 1: to interfere. That this was bad, but they were so

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Speaker 1: frightened for the Russian that it was better to support

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Speaker 1: fascism than communism. And I don't understand how a country

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Speaker 1: of Chilo and Gerte, of Beethoven and Mozart could fall

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Speaker 1: for a madman and murderer. And nothing uneducated can't speak

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Speaker 1: proper German and create a master race of German blood,

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Speaker 1: air and masteries. Nobody is superior and nobody is conferial

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Speaker 1: for yourself.

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Speaker 3: So at that time it must have been so surreal.

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Speaker 3: One minute you're thirteen, and as you say, you would

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Speaker 3: have blended in with other Germans. So did it happen

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Speaker 3: as quickly as were you rounded up and taken straight

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Speaker 3: to a concentration camp? Or did it take a long

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Speaker 3: time to get there?

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Speaker 1: Well, it took from nineteen thirty three he came to

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Speaker 1: power until nineteen thirty eight he created Christallinach. Now my father,

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Speaker 1: a wonderful German Man he made for me false papers

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Speaker 1: and I lived for five and a half years eight

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty kilometters. I lived in an orphanage because

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Speaker 1: I was supposed to be an orphanage. Often. At seventeen,

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Speaker 1: I was rewarded one of the finest to be accepted

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Speaker 1: in the finest union we have unions. When you belong

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Speaker 1: to a union, that's a homoe, that means you have

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Speaker 1: won some titles in making something very nice. And I

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Speaker 1: was rewarded, and I was in a blue rob with

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Speaker 1: white lece and my master also that's the dignity of

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Speaker 1: that union. And he says to me in German that

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Speaker 1: today the apprentice Walter's life is accepted in one of

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Speaker 1: the finest and oldest union in Germany. And I started

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Speaker 1: crying when he shaked me, and he was strong. He said,

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Speaker 1: you idiot, why are you crying? Because I couldn't tell

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Speaker 1: him I am not an orphan. I have wonderful parents

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Speaker 1: who should be now on my side. And I couldn't

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Speaker 1: hold back my tears that I tried that my lovely

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Speaker 1: mom and my dad could not be here and enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the pleasure and the honor of their son who has

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Speaker 1: done what his father has asked him. Today, I can

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Speaker 1: tell you I sent my father. He always told me

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Speaker 1: on the phone. And now Eddy is hot. But one

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Speaker 1: day you will be very grateful.

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Speaker 3: Your parents would be very proud of you. Eddie are

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Speaker 3: the happiest man on earth. Is in all good bookstores now, Eddie,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Eddie. I hope we sell a

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Speaker 1: lot of books.

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Speaker 3: I am flying off the shelves. Thank you, Eddie.

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Speaker 1: Bye bye.

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Speaker 3: Join the and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 1: One at one point seven.

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Speaker 3: Tell you