Eva Olssen

On Monday October 28 we had Eva Olssen came into our school and talk to us about hate , the Holocaust and her experience in the Holocaust. Eva Olssen is one of the few Holocaust survivours.

When she was talking to us and going through the slides. One of the things that impacted me personally the most was when she witenesed here own mother and many other people be brutally murdered by the German and Austrian Nazi's. I definatly could not stomach those sights and painful 15 or so years in a concentration camp.

At the begining she was talking about bullies and bystanders and how a bystander is just as bad as a bully not because they joined in but because they did not do anyhting about it. One thing that i wil always remember for the years to come is that:
1) Dont use the word hate anymore, because that is what started the Holocaust.
2) Dont be a bully or a bystander, no matter what.
3) The Holocaust was horrible.

Out of all the information Eva was throwing at use I only have one question and that queation is " How did you survive 15 years of hell in hell?."

All the information Eva was telling us about I already have started to stop using the word "Hate". Eva was so true because the word "Hate" started the Holocaust and not just that but many , many more bad situstaions we all want never to happen again.
War for example is one.

The information that Eva was saying during the hour slide show and history lesson, the most important thing we should remember is that: Never use the word "Hate" and be a bystander. Those things can lead into some bad things over the years that you dont want to get yourself into. And finally the hardest thing I will have to do is to stop using the word "Hate", it is very hard because before we met her i was using that word in almost every other sentence. But I will try my hardest to stop it.

Mike