A Holocaust survivor has revealed the secret of happiness – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Eddi Jaku, a 98-year-old survivor of the Nazi holocaust, is based in Australia and has clear priorities. Her secret to being happy is "a good wife and a good friendship".

"You must not hate (…) Hate is a disease, destroy your enemy first, but you too." It is the main teaching that life has given him.

Jaku lives in Sydney today and tells his story after 73 years since the end of the Second World War. In 1942, upon his return from his night work, he was arrested in Brussels (Belgium) and drove to the Auschwitz concentration camp with his family, where he spent 15 months. Like many other Jews, his parents died in the gas chamber. His prisoner's number is still tattooed on his forearm.

The nonagenarian admits that when his father badured him that he was still a child more pleasant to give than to drink, he believed himself "crazy". Now, he recognizes that his father was right.

However, this does not hide the trauma experienced. "I will not forgive nor forget," says Jaku. And he badures that he will never return to two countries: Germany and Poland.

In these moments, he considers himself "the happiest person in the world" and expresses the desire that his words serve as a life lesson to the younger ones. "I will teach children to be happy and make this world a better world for everyone," he says.