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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jonesy and Amanda. So last year we

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Speaker 1: spoke to Eddie jak Whuh. He'd written a book, The

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Speaker 1: Happiest Man on Earth. He was one hundred years old

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Speaker 1: when we spoke to him. He passed away yesterday at

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Speaker 1: the age of one hundred and one. He volunteered at

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Speaker 1: the Sydney Jewish Museum and they have said his passing

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Speaker 1: has left a huge void in the hearts of everyone.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: You just look at the sliding doors of people who

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Speaker 1: he saw die in front of him. He was born

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Speaker 1: in Germany and under the Nazis, he went to the

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Speaker 1: booken Wold concentration camp related to Auschwitz, where his parents

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Speaker 1: were murdered in the gas chambers. He said that he

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Speaker 1: heard people who were it was such horrendous living conditions,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't even call it living conditions. He'd hear

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Speaker 1: people run to kill themselves against the electric fences. He

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Speaker 1: escaped a death march from Auschwitz and hid in a

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Speaker 1: cave in a forest, eating slugs and snails. He crawled

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Speaker 1: into a highway where his rescued by American soldiers. He

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Speaker 1: said that the best revenge would be to live and

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Speaker 1: enjoy life, so he moved to Australia in the fifties.

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Speaker 1: He is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather. He

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Speaker 1: dedicated his life to teaching others about the dangers of intolerance.

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Speaker 1: So when we spoke to him, we said, why did

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Speaker 1: he write his first book at the age of one

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Speaker 1: hundred and he had quite a powerful message.

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Speaker 2: I never wanted to write a book, but when I

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Speaker 2: see what's going on in the world now, I said,

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Speaker 2: I have to put my message on paper because we

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Speaker 2: have to eradicate hate. Hate is a disease and education

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Speaker 2: doesn't start at school. It started at home. The people

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Speaker 2: are too often using this world hate. I have suffered

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Speaker 2: because of this world hate.

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Speaker 1: Try through kindness, says anything. Yeah, what an incredible man.

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Speaker 1: It's learning our lessons from him.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's