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Holocaust survivor, author and acclaimed public speaker Eva Olsson has formally received the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 99-year-old Bracebridge resident received her award on Oct. 28 during a ceremony with Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Olsson was originally named as a recipient in 2021 but the ceremony was postponed due to COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created in 1967, the Order of Canada recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. More than 7,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested in the Order. Those who bear the Order\u2019s iconic snowflake insignia have changed our nation\u2019s measure of success and, through the sum of their accomplishments, have helped us build a better Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Crestwood Preparatory College\u2019s Oral History Project:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Olsson grew up in Hungary, born into a Jewish family in Satu Mare. She remembers the family\u2019s Hasidic traditions and the poverty and simplicity of her early life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other Hungarian Jews, Eva was comparatively isolated from the war raging all around them; they heard rumours and such, but as Hungary was allied with the Axis powers, day-to-day life was relatively unchanged. That was not the case after May 1944 though when Nazi Germany occupied its Hungarian ally, and Hungarian Jews immediately felt the weight of the Shoah (the Hebrew word for catastrophe). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva and her family were now inside the ghetto, and within a matter of weeks, the deportations began. The family walked seven kilometres and were boarded onto the waiting boxcars, where the brutal conditions were unrelenting for four days. They arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the family was separated, with most going to the gas chambers and crematoria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva and her sisters were selected for slave labour, and after spending a few weeks in the camp, they were sent to Dusseldorf, and then Essen, Germany, to work in the Krupp factory system. Eva spent some time there during the winter of 1944-45, and was present during the day-and-night bombing that made up the Allies\u2019 Ruhr bombing campaign. Bombs eventually destroyed the part of the factory where Eva was working, so she and the other forced labourers were herded into a hole in the ground, before being forced onto the boxcars again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time she was sent to Belsen, which would be her final destination. She spent several months there, barely surviving starvation and disease, when the British liberated the camp in April 1945. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is when her emotional and physical recovery began, and during this time she made the decision to relocate herself and her sister to Sweden. There she would meet Rudi, who she would eventually marry, and a few years later the two made the journey to Canada, where they settled and raised their family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva did not speak about her experiences for many years; in fact, it was only when her grandchildren were old enough \u2013 fifty years after the fact \u2013 that she began to open up, first to the grandchildren\u2019s classes, and then to audiences all over Canada, and even at the United Nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva has a passion for social justice and her mission is to maintain the legacy and the memory of those who were murdered during the Shoah.<\/p>\n\n\n

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