On Monday October 26th a lady named Eva Ollsen came to our school to talk to us about her atrocities in the holocaust.
I am shocked that anyone, could survive any of the things that Eva had to go through, when she described them to us, my first thought was, why didn’t anybody try to stop this?
Hearing her speech really made me think about a lot of things, like the word hate, which I try not to say at all anymore because hate is what started the holocaust. She told us about lots of the things that happened to her when she was in the Holocaust. When she was 17 years, a Nazi soldier came to Hungry where Eva was living and told everyone to pack there things because they were going to work in a brick factory, so Eva and her family packed their things thinking that anything was better than getting killed in the Holocaust. But sadly, they were wrong in thinking this man, who was a Nazi soldier, was here to help them, he was there to do the exact opposite. Everyone from her neiborhood was marched into box cars to be shipped to Holland to a concentration camp called Auschwits.
After a long time of being in different concentration camps, and having to go through things like living in the ground because of the camp burning down, Eva has survived, and has come to tell everyone her story. She tells people what terrible things have happened to her, to open our eyes so we can realize that these things are real, and that they should have never happened and it is up to us to prevent them from happening again.
"If all this suffering does not help us broaden our horizon, to attain a greater humanity by shedding all trifling and irrelevant issues, then it will have all been for nothing."
- Etty Hillisum
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