A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor revealed his secret to happiness and became viral

Eddie Jaku to know the suffering: survived the Holocaust. However, he describes himself as "the happiest man on earth" Now, at 98, his mission is to transmit to the new generations his recipe for a successful life: "You must not hate", badures

Eddie revealed his secret of happiness in a video that has become viral in recent days.

"You say 'I do not like this person'", Starts Eddie. "But you do not hate, hate is a disease, destroy your enemy first, but you too."

The secret of happiness, according to Eddie, is "A good wife and a friendship". And he remembered a teaching that his father had given him at the age of eight: "There is more pleasure to give than to withdraw."

At first, Eddie did not understand. "I thought he was crazy "he said. "But no, now that I have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, I know what you give to his reward. If you do not give anything, you receive nothing. "

And he concluded: "I want to teach all young people: if they do not learn from us, there will be no future."

The story of Eddie Jaku

Interviewed on the podcast No filter from the Australian site Mamamia, Eddie Jaku He also remembered the moment, more than 75 years ago, with his family, he was taken to the extermination camp at Auschwitz.

A Jewish man in Nazi-occupied Belgium, Eddie had a night job at a cigarette factory in Brussels. He lived with his family in the attic of a small house they rented thanks to the act of compbadion of a Belgian.

But the morning of October 17, 1942 his luck took a turn.

"Someone denounced us"he counted. "I came back at three in the morning. There were no lights. I thought everyone was asleep. But my parents and my sister had already been taken away. They were waiting for me. And this time, it was for Auschwitz. "

More than seven decades later, Eddie Jaku still has the tattoo engraved on his forearm: 1 7 2 3 3 8. Reminder of the horrors he witnessed during his 15 months in the extermination camp and the death of his parents.

When he came to the field, He found himself face to face with a man who determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men and women: Josef Mengele

Mengele also decided the fate of Eddie and his father: "The Angel of Death", he named it from one side and his father to another.

"I saw my father leave in a truck. So I went behind him, I went down and I was almost in the truck when a good man, a good soldier said, "Hey, you, did not you get it? not said to leave that way? " Then he said to me: "Your father enters the truck and you enter the camp".

Then Eddie returned and entered the field, a place where more than 1.1 million people were killed.

"I never saw my father again"he remembered. "My father, 52, and my mother, 43, they died that night in a gas chamber. 20 minutes pbaded before they choked. "

But Eddie, who had studied engineering before the war, survived thanks to his knowledge. He was appointed head of a workshop and was sent directly to work for Mengele for two months.who commissioned him to make a small operating table.

He lives today in Sydney. 73 years after the end of the Second World War, he stated that there are two places he will never come back: Germany, where began the Nazi horror, and Polandwhere his mother and father were killed one night in a gas chamber.

"I can not forgive nor forget"Eddie said. "But I will be happy until my death. I will teach children to be happy and make this world a better place for everyone.