Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, and a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, and his country. The Happiest Man on Earth is a powerful, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.