“He dedicated his life to educating others about the dangers of intolerance and the importance of love and hope,” Mr Frydenberg said.
Eddie Jaku was born into a Jewish family in 1920, in the German city of Leipzig.
He was incarcerated in the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps during World War II, where he narrowly escaped a "death march" and was eventually found and rescued by Allied soldiers in 1945.
He arrived in Australia in 1950, where he raised a family and was a founding member of the Sydney Jewish Museum.
“He was determined that the next generation would be a force for good, and they understood the lessons to be learned from the terrible past – humanity's darkest moment, the Holocaust,” Mr Frydenberg said.
"He sums it up well when he says: 'if we don't learn from the past, then we have no future'."
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