#3 Eva Olsson

Imagine. You’re being shipped off in a small train car with a hundred other people, you are told you’re going to be making bricks, but when you arrive at your destination you realize you should have said “ I love you” to your mother, you might not see her ever again. To you this might just be a bad dream but to Eva Olsson it was realty. Eva Olsson came to our school on Monday to tell us about her struggles in the Holocaust. She taught us how we should never hate, and that we should never be a bully. She told us about how she was imprisoned in Auschwitz and how, after they were finally liberated, she found love and how her husband was killed by a drunk driver. She taught us a lot of lessons in that short hour long presentation. She taught us to; never drink and drive, not to be a bystander, and mostly not to be a bully!



Eva wanted us to make sure we never hate. Hate was the reason that her family was killed, hate was the reason most of the Jewish people in Europe she taking away and killed, The Holocaust started because a man hated another man. Eva has taught her children and her grand-children to say "I dislike or I don't like" instead of "I hate." I think that I will try to say I dislike because hate is a very strong word. I don't know how Eva has forgiven the Nazis after what the did to her and her family. I know that if I were Eva I would not be able to get through what the Nazis did without feeling hatred, somehow Eva seems to do it.


Eva had to go through a lot with only her sister to help her. She had to lose her mother, nieces, and father only at the age of 19. Eva has shown us we need to love our family even when we are mad at them. That we should thank them when the make us dinner or pack our lunch. We should tell our parents about our day when they ask, because you never know, it might be the last time you ever see them.


Eva Olsson has been very inspirational to me and I hope she continues to make an impact on others lives. She has had a rough life and somehow she gets the courage to go to far off places and talk about these difficulties. I can't believe that so many people died, lost their families or friends just because someone didn't like your religion. But the Holocaust was not the only time where people were killed based on their skin tone, whether they're a boy or girl, or your race. Like Nelson Mandela who was a prisoner for 27 years all because he was black, when he came out of prison he became the president of South Africa. If you think that discrimination has just happened in the past, your wrong, they're are big things: when people are prejudiced to people of a different race, And things that are small: the ongoing fight between Macs and PCs. People hate too much and we should stop before more people get hurt or killed. After Dr. Eva Olsson's speech I feel motivated to make a difference on how we view each other.