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

National cemetery and the star of David at the small fortress in Theresienstadt. | Photo: martijn.munneke/flickr CC

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).

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