Wednesday, November 4, 2009

I was stunned! Yet very disappointed. A lady by the name of Eva Olsson came to our school and talked to us about a great tragedy that affected her and 11 million other people. She explained to us that one word caused a murder of 11 million people this word is "hate".


Now for a second just imagine being told to get out of your homes and pack your bags this is exactly what Eva Olsson was told to do her and her 6 brothers and sisters and her mom and dad were being told the same thing. Once the got out of their homes the walked 10 km just to get to a train that would be packed full of other Jewish people and they were on the train for 3 days before they arrived at Auschwitz. This was a concentration camp where Eva started her horrible journey.


She told us many stories about her journey and throughout the presentation I was shocked and stunned that 11 million people, Jewish people were murdered because of one word, one religion this is just to overwhelming to think that this many people were just tortured, murdered wiped off the planet. This really bothered me to think how evil one man could be to command his army to slaughter and torture 11 million Jews.

The thing I found amazing about Eva Olsson was that even though her family was brutally murdered she had the courage and the strength to fight through the horrible living conditions and end up surviving the Holocaust. Eva Olsson is a survivor but more of all a hero.

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