National cemetery and the star of David at the small fortress in Theresienstadt. Photo: martijn.munneke/flickr CC
Looking for Agnes and Olga
People may deal with the Holocaust in various ways, but it can be a deeply affecting and spiritual journey, as David O’Donoghue reports
by David O’Donoghue
13th May 2011
A drab, grey bus station in the Prague suburbs, just before 10am. I have left my family behind to go it alone. It’s a pilgrimage in search of Agnes Barsdorf and her daughter Olga Grunberg (née Barsdorf).
