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- Hi my name is Eddie. This is my wife; Flore and my 2 sons; Michael Andre. This is my story.
- Yes, Walter very good!
- GET OFF THE FLOOR YOU WIMP!!!
- Sir, your needed at the gas chambers, someone has escaped.
- Hi my name is Abraham Jakubowicz but you can call me Eddie. I was born in Leipzig Germany in 1920. I am a survivor of the holocaust and on my 100th birthday, I published my memoir, ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ which chronicles my survival story and my dedication to advocate for peace and kindness in the world.
- I was the only Jewish student at my school but it was not a problem until Adolf Hitler came to power. My family sent me to a boarding school, where I used the name Walter Schleif, out of fear that others might realise I was Jewish. I was a very hardworking student and studied mechanical engineering. I even graduated my class as the top apprentice toolmaker!
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- Luckily my family were able to escape but we were soon captured and sent to Auschwitz. My mother, aged 43, and my father, aged 50, were murdered in a gas chamber. I was spared because I proved of some use to the Nazis due to my engineering skills. I experienced horrible conditions everyday at my time in Auschwitz . I was malnourished, sleep deprived, slave laboured and torchered among many other horrendous conditions.
- I think he's going to die!
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- I survived the second march but managed to escape and lived in a cave in a forest, eating slugs and snails for about 2 months. I was on the verge of dying but managed to crawl to a highway where American soldiers rescued me. It was June 1945 and the war was finally over but Eddie was in terrible shape. I weighed only 28kg, had cholera and typhoid- the nurse told me I had a 65% chance of dying.
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