Edward Jaku OAM[1] (born Abraham Salomon Jakubowicz; 14 April 1920 – 12 October 2021[2]) was a survivor of several German concentration camps during World War II, who wrote of his wartime experiences after emigrating to Australia.
[4] Jaku recounts that as a boy in Leipzig, Germany, he truly believed that he was part of "the most enlightened, the most cultured, the most sophisticated society in the whole world".
His father organised an alias for him with false ID papers, and he was sent to an engineering college far away from Leipzig for his own safety.
[3] After the war, he returned to Belgium, where he met and married another Jewish survivor, Flore Molho, with whom he had two sons, Michael and Andre.
[3] Jaku served as a volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum from November 1992 until its closure due to COVID-19 in March 2020.