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Russell, Emily. “Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz: 'It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery”National Public Radio, 23 January 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798242097/holocaust-survivor-returning-to-auschwitz-it-s-like-going-to-the-family-cemetery

Accessed 4 Apr, 2020.

In “Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz: 'It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery” The author Emily Russell, talks about Vladimir Munk, Holocaust surviver, life and experience through the Holocaust with his family. The author states that Munk and his family were sent to concentration camps and his family didn’t make it out. She talks about how he feels that the camps are like a family grave because of what happened to his family there. He tried to move on with his life after what happened and he’s managed to move on but the memories of what happened to him still are unforgettable to him. According to Russell, it’s hard for him to go back to the camps where he lost his family.

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Bowman, Emma, “A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family” NRP, 21 January 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074549640/storycorps-holocaust-survivor-remembers

Accessed 4 Apr. 2022

In “A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family”  the author, Emma Bowman, describes the events that lead a Holocaust survivor to marry the daughter of the family that saved him. Her article explains how Philip Lazowski and his family went into hiding when they discovered that the Nazis were killing Jews and how Philip got caught by the Nazis. It then goes on to state how Philip was saved by a family who took him in as a son to escape the massacre that the author claimed killed 1,000 Jews. It then includes how Philip ended up finding the daughter of that family through a woman he befriended at a wedding. At the end of the article, it explains how Philip ended up marrying the girl and having children together

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Gringals, Sam. “A Holocaust Survivor's Celebration Of Liberation Day Is Colored By Coronavirus” NPR/National Public Radio, 20 April 2020.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/20/838696336/a-holocaust-survivors-celebration-of-liberation-day-is-colored-by-coronavirus

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In “A Holocaust Survivor's Celebration Of Liberation Day Is Colored By Coronavirus,” the grandson of Sol Gringals talks about how covid has affected them celebrating his second birthday. In his article, he talks about how his grandfather had a “second birthday” and how he celebrities with him on April 11 when he was saved and liberated by American soldiers. But in 2020, he couldn't celebrate due to the covid outbreak, and where his grandfather was living didn’t let visitors inside. He then starts to reflect on old stories his grandfather used to tell reporters and how he struggles now that he is 100 years old. Still, he did tell them that his job was to dig rocks and that after his whole family was killed except his brother but his brother had news that the Americans were there to save them from Nordhausen. After all, he still questions why his family can’t visit and wants to come home.

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Wiener, Lisa, “90-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Shares Her Story” morning edition, 26 January 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960631343/90-year-old-auschwitz-survivor-shares-her-story Accessed Apr 4th 2022

In Lisa Wiener’s, “90-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Shares Her Story”, you get to hear the story of a woman who is a survivor of a deadly concentration camp from the Holocaust, known as Auschwitz. We hear from her personal experiences that she was forced to go through during the time of the Holocaust. We also find out that she was separated from her mother and little siblings, as well as her father. Finally, we learn that her, her sister, and her father are the only out of her family that survived.

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Russell, Emily. “Holocaust Survivor Returning to Auschwitz” It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery’” National Public Radio, 23 January 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798242097/holocaust-survivor-returning-to-auschwitz-it-s-like-going-to-the-family-cemetery

In the article “Holocaust Survivor Returning to Auschwitz” It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery’” author Emily Russell tells the story of Vladimir Munk’s life during and after the Holocaust. The article is written right before the 75th anniversary of the liberation, and re-tells the story of Munk’s life as he prepares to revisit Auschwitz. Munk was forced to move to the concentration camp Terezin for two years before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The author states that in this camp, Munk was separated from his mother and father, who both died in the crematorium. After the liberation, Munk was able to move on to a normal life, enrolling in school, marrying another Holocaust survivor, moving to America, and having kids. Although he has returned to a normal, happy life, he often finds himself thinking about his time in the camps, and the family he has lost along the way.

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Russell, Emily, “Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz: 'It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery” NPR 23 January 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798242097/holocaust-survivor-returning-to-auschwitz-it-s-like-going-to-the-family-cemetery Accessed 4 Apr. 2022

In “Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz: 'It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery” the writer Emily Russell explains the story of Vladimir Munk and his experiences in the Holocaust. In the article, Russell writes about how Munk’s life was before, during, and after the Holocaust. She explains how Munk had lost his family in Auschwitz to the “chimney” and how he met his girlfriend, and future wife, there as well. The article also includes how when Munk was given the opportunity to go visit Auschwitz again, he described it as “....going to the family cemetery.”

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Weiner, Lisa. “90-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Shares Her Story” NPR/National Public Radio, 26 Jan. 2021.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960631343/90-year-old-auschwitz-survivor-shares-her-story

Accessed 4 Apr. 2022

In “90-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Shares Her Story”, Ruth Cohen shares her personal story of her experiences during the Holocaust. Cohen describes how she had a nice lifestyle until Hitler started to gain control. After Hitler started to gain power her and her family were told to leave and were transported by train to Auschwitz. Cohen also describes some of the traumatic events that occurred during the time such as her favorite biology teacher being shot and her family being split up. Concluding, Cohen believes that she was very lucky to have survived and that we all want to believe that something like that won’t happen again but we don’t know so it is everyone's role to remember the Holocaust to prevent similar events from happening in the future.

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“Auschwitz Survivor Who Fought Racism With Music Dies At 96” National Public Radio, 10 July 2021. ,

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/10/1014982111/auschwitz-survivor-who-fought-racism-with-music-dies-at-96

In the article “Auschwitz Survivor Who Fought Racism With Music Dies At 96”, respects are paid to Esther Bejarano by briefly telling her incredible life story. Bejarano was a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and after years of forced labor, she volunteered to hold a place in the Jewish girl's orchestra that played music for Jews in train cars who’d unknowingly been brought to have their lives taken. Music kept Bejarano alive both during and after her years of torment. Once the war had ended she stepped up into politics and advocation and created a band with her children to spread music fighting racism and discrimination. Esther Bejarano lived a powerful life and used music as both her source of hope and rebellion. A good soul has been lost but her story lives on.

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Corona, Jo. “A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family” National Public Radio, 21 January 2022.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074549640/storycorps-holocaust-survivor-remembers

Accessed 4 Apr. 2022.

In “A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family” by Jo Corona, Philip Lazowski’s life story is shared. This article starts off by explaining the Lazowski family's backstory and their life in Bielica and how their home got invaded by the Nazis in 1942. Philip Lazowski got taken by the Germans when he was parting with his family to go and find a different hiding spot because there wasn't enough room for them. After he got taken he realized that the Nazis were sparing the families in which the parents had working papers, since he was the only one taken out of his family, he didn't have his parents with their papers. Soon he found a lady with two girls in which she had documentation of her working papers with her, he asked if he could pretend to be her son so he’d be spared. She agreed and his life was spared from the Nazis. That woman ended up being the mother of his future wife. Years later at a wedding, he met Ruth, one of the lady's daughters. As they were exchanging backstories they both made the realization that Philip was the little boy that Ruth's mother had saved years ago.

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Treisman, Rachel. "Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101” NPR, October 13, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045685012/eddie-jaku-obituary-holocaust-survivor-happiest-man-on-earth

In “Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101” (transcript written by Rachel Treisman) Eddie Jaku explains his life after the holocaust and how he found a way to become happy again. Eddie Jaku was a holocaust survivor who managed to escape Auschwitz and hide away in a forest until he was able to be rescued by the American Army. Later that year Eddie Jaku returned to Belgium when he met Flore, a woman whom he fell in love with and married. They then moved to Australia and had a son which is the main cause of Eddie Jaku’s happiness. After they had had their son, Eddi Jacku made his story public and explained that he found happiness in his family also by making others happy. Eddie Jaku was a man who endured hardships but still preserved and refused to let hate and loss consume him. He died at the age of 101 and he will be remembered as a man who went through the worst but still saw the best in humanity.

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Eddie Jaku, who survived the Holocaust and dedicated the rest of his life to promoting kindness, tolerance and resilience, has died in Sydney at age 101.

The self-proclaimed "happiest man on Earth" shared his story with the world in a popular TED Talk, a best-selling memoir and as a volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum, which he helped create.

"Eddie Jaku was a beacon of light and hope for not only our community, but the world," said the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, which announced his passing. "He will always be remembered for the joy that followed him, and his constant resilience in the face of adversity."

After the Holocaust he remained unhappy - until his son was born

Jaku was born Abraham Jakubowicz in Leipzig, Germany, in 1920, to a family that considered themselves "German first, Jewish second." He was kicked out of school as a teenager because he was Jewish, and completed his high school education in another city under an alias.

Beginning in 1938, Jaku and his family were sent to several concentration camps including Buchenwald, Gurs and eventually Auschwitz, which he later described as "hell on Earth."

Because Jaku had studied engineering, he was spared the gas chamber and instead worked as a slave laborer. His parents and other family members did not survive the war.

Jaku himself was sent on a "death march"during the evacuation of Auschwitzin 1945, but managed to break free. He hid out in a forest alone for months, he said, subsisting off slugs and snails, until he was rescued by the American Army.

Later that year he returned to Belgium, where he met and married his wife of 75 years, Flore. They moved to Australia in 1950. Jaku worked in a Sydney garage and Flore was a dressmaker before the couple went into real estate together.

Still, as Jaku recalled in his 2019 TED Talk, he was "not a happy man" immediately after the war - but his outlook changed when the couple's first son was born.

"At that time, my heart was healed and my happiness returned in abundance," he explained. "I made the promise that from that day until the end of my life, I promised to be happy, smile, be polite, helpful, and kind. I also promised to never put my foot on German soil again. Today, I stand in front of you, a man who has kept all those promises."

Jaku said his greatest happiness came from his family. He is survived by Flore, his two sons, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He refused to let loss or hate consume him

Jaku vowed to teach and share happiness with everyone he met, as he explained in his TED Talk - appropriately titled "A Holocaust survivor's blueprint for happiness."

"When I remember that I should have died a miserable death, but instead I'm alive, so I aim to help people who are down," he said. "I was at the bottom of the pit. So if I can make one miserable person smile, I'm happy."

In his speech, he offered some simple but sage pieces of advice for slowing down and savoring each day: invite a loved one for a meal, go for a walk, lean on friends in both good times and bad.

Jaku also urged listeners to do their best to make the world a better place for others, and to ensure that the terrible tragedy of the Holocaust will never happen again or ever be forgotten.

Despite his experiences, he refused to let loss or hate consume him.

"I do not hate anyone," Jaku said. "Hate is a disease which may destroy your enemy but will also destroy you in the process."

Choosing kindness and tolerance was also the premise of Jaku's memoir, The Happiest Man on Earth, which he published last year at age 100.

Jaku was also part of the group of survivors that co-founded the Sydney Jewish Museum in 1992, and volunteered there for the past three decades, according to a remembrance from Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

Jaku would take school groups on tours of the museum's Holocaust exhibitions, Frydenburg wrote, "bringing the grainy, faded, black and white images to life for thousands of young students" and urging them to never forget. He wrote that Jaku would recall his own experiences and then point to a leather belt - his only personal item that survived the camps.

The museum wrote in a tweet that Jaku's impact will be felt "for generations to come." Frydenberg - whose Hungarian mother arrived in Australia as a child in 1950 after surviving the Holocaust - also said Jaku's memory and legacy will live on:

"It is our duty to see that his story is known by generations to come, for he experienced the very worst, but saw the very best in mankind."

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Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101

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Eddie Jaku, who survived the Holocaust and dedicated the rest of his life to promoting kindness, tolerance and resilience, has died in Sydney at age 101. The self-proclaimed "happiest man on Earth" shared his story with the world in a popular TED Talk, a best-selling memoir and as a volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum, which he helped create.

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Kennerley, Louise. Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101. National public radio, oct 13, 2021.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045685012/eddie-jaku-obituary-holocaust-survivor-happiest-man-on-earth

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In the article,  Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101. It talks about how Eddie jaku survives the holocaust. The article claims that he escaped by being saved by american soldiers in a cave. Eddie then talks about how anger can destroy your enemies but will also destroy you in the process. Lastly the article talks about how he died right after his 100th birthday.