Inspiring, moving, exciting, emotional, amazing, remarkable astonishing and heartbreaking. Those are all words that would describe what our school felt on Monday October 26. That was the day that Eva Olsson came to our school and once again broke her silence to talk to us about her past experiences with the Holocaust.

What impacted me the most about Eva Olsson's visit was how much courage she has to be able to speak out about the genocide that happened. I could tell she was still very emotional about all of the events that happened and especially about her mother and how she was not able to say goodbye.

One of the most important lessons that Eva taught us, I think, is that we shouldn't use the words hate, to not be a bystander and to not drink and drive. (Eva lost her husband after the war due to drinking and driving and said that the war was caused because of hate. She said to use the word dislike if you must but never hate)The hardest lesson in my opinion will be to always remember to love and remember your family because you don't know how long they are going to be with you. Unfortunately Eva lost her family because of the bullying by the Nazis'.

It must be very difficult to do what she is doing but it is good that she is because since she is one of the very few survivors of the Holocaust, it was nice that we got to hear her story because many people will not be able to hear it first hand in 20 years. I was very happy that I had the chance to listen to her story.

Lauren