News

September 2025

It is our core task and project to maintain the exhibition and to embed the Room 28 project of remembrance and education in the heart of our society. We are therefore now focusing on modernizing the exhibition and exploring a valuable audio and film archive. There are various ways in which you can support our project, one is by making a donation, either directly o n our Room 28 account or via Betterplace.

Brundibár - the opera by Hans Kása and Adolf Hoffmeister, and a children's book are at the beginning of our project. Because the story of Aninka and Pepíček and the organ grinder Brundibár is a story about the power of friendship and solidarity. This is the basic idea that led to the Ukrainian and Hebrew edition of the Brundibár children's book by Hannelore Brenner (text) and Maria Thomaschke (pictures). The Ukrainian and Hebrew edition is published by Edition Room 28 in collaboration with our organization and supported  by our  Foreign Office. The project is under the patronage of Vladimir Jurowski, General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. 

The Ukrainian and Hebrew edition of the Brundibár children's book was published by Edition Room 28. The original German book was published by the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes together with Edition Room 28 as Co-Publisher. 

This book The Girls of Room 28 is based on authentic documents and testimonies and is recommended for anyone who wants to find out what it was like when the opera Brundibár was performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto. But Brundibár is of course only a part, albeit an important one, of this book that tells the story of a group of Jewish girls whose paths crossed in Room 28 in the Theresienstadt ghetto until they seperated again. - Decades after the war the survivors reunited. They decided to tell their story. Hannelore Brenner became their chosen author. - A book against Anti-semitism and a plea for culture, art and human values.

 www.edition-room28.de/maedchen-von-zimmer-28