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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson celebrates a very special 97th birthday—thanks to Yad Vashem
Description: In the spring of 1944, Eva Olsson's family—along with the rest of her town’s Jewish population—was deported to Auschwitz. Her parents were killed, along with her brothers and all but one sister.
A year later, after being moved to Bergen-Belsen, Olsson wound up liberated as the war ended, and subsequently moved to Sweden, where she met and married a Swedish man. The family ended up moving to Canada after that, where Olsson stayed silent about her wartime experience for 50 years—until a grandchild asked her to speak at their school.
That was 25 years ago. Tod...