Summary of Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany. I was named Abraham Salomon Jakubowicz, but friends called me Adi for short. I was a German citizen first, a Jew second. My family’s religion did not seem as important to us as being good citizens of Leipzig. #2 My father was a very kind man, who loved his family, and would often bring friends home to share dinner with us. He would tell me there is more pleasure in giving than in taking, that the important things in life are far more precious than money. #3 In 1933, when Hitler came to power, he brought with him a wave of anti-Semitism. I had my Bar Mitzvah in a small synagogue three hundred metres down the street. The Rabbi who ran our shul was very smart, and he rented the flat below it to a gentile who had a son in the SS. #4 I was enrolled at Jeter und Shearer, a mechanical engineering college in Tuttlingen, far to the south of Leipzig. I was extremely nervous about the exams, but I passed them and began a new life under the name Walter Schleif.