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When you first arrive in Terezín, the horrors that once haunted the town are unseen. There are people strolling to the shops or hanging their laundry out the windows. The restaurants are filled with laughter. Normal, everyday things. The town it has preserved so much of its history, it feels as if you’ve travelled back in time. But this is a place with a dark secret
Louisa Stanley has never lost a child, but seven years ago, that's what it felt like had happened – and it caused her to go through desperate feelings of anger, blame and self-reflection. Being told her three-year-old daughter Anna was not going to walk or talk stunned and confused Louisa. Anna, now ten, was diagnosed as having Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a very rare genetic chromosome condition which affects only about four in a million people and severely restricts their development