I didn't know what to expect when i first came into the chapel and i saw the first picture on the projector. I was talking to Kate we were both trying to figure out what the speech was about. Then when she started talking, i knew it would be a moving speech, and i was interested to learn more about the Holocaust,a from a lady, that actually experienced it.
Eva Olsson was born and grew up in Hungry until she was 19. They were all ready living in the ghetto, with her entire family. Then the Nazi soldiers came in and told her family that they were being moved to a different country to work in a brick factory. So they got moved and that's when Eva Olsson's horrible experience began.
When Eva started to talk about the word hate, and how that word started the Holocaust, i suddenly felt bad that i had used that word so much in my life, and then i realized why when i was young, my mom had always tried to get me not to say the word hate, and now i know why. I understood what she was saying, and how that did start the Holocaust. Eva Olsson was saying that because of hate she had her whole family taken away from her.
When Eva stopped talking about her experiences, she would give us tips on how to behave and how to treat someone. Some of them were to not be any kind of a bystander, because you are just as guilty as the bully, to always once and a while tell your family members that you love them, and don't drink and drive.
Eva Olsson had her entire family killed, but she still found a husband when the war was over, She had kids, and was starting a new life, but suddenly, she lost her husband, to a drinking driver. She was used to this, but not with someone she loved so much, and not by this accident.
Eva taught us all that we have to be brave to survive, and we have to have pain in your memories, to be alive.