Joe Arridy, 23, ate ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Friday, Jan. 6, 1939, and spent the rest of the day playing with his prized possession, a toy train. Then, around 9:30 p.m., two me… ...

A South Carolina man, Freddy Owens, 46, is asking the Supreme Court to halt his execution after a witness admitted to falsely accusing him. Owens was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of ...

And, in 2020, he published “The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor,” which retold his story. “I do not hate anyone,” he said in a 2019 speech, according to ...

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Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who published a best-selling memoir last year in Australia at age 100 titled “The Happiest Man on Earth,” died on Tuesday. He had suffered a heart attack a few ...

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who last year published his best-selling memoir, “The Happiest Man on Earth,” has died in Sydney, a Jewish community leader said. He was 101. “Eddie Jaku was a ...

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who published a best-selling memoir last year in Australia at age 100 titled “The Happiest Man on Earth,” died on Tuesday.

Jaku spread his message of happiness and resilience in a popular TED Talk and 2020 memoir. He died in Sydney, where he co-founded the Sydney Jewish Museum and educated students about the Holocaust.