Reporter Elaina John
Holocaust Survivor Eva Olsson Shares Story In Vermilion
It was an important history lesson for the students of VES, J.R. Robson, and St. Jerome’s school, as Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson told stories from inside the Auschwitz concentration camp with frankness and detail in Vermilion on October 27. Eva Olsson was 19 when her family was sent to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, during the Second World War. After standing, packed on a train with hundreds of other Jews, fighting for oxygen as others collapsed and died, Olsson arrived at