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 Room 28 - the Room 28 in the Girls' Home L 410 in the Theresienstadt ghetto became a symbol and program for us. Therefore our name. Despite all the misfortune, this place sends out a positive signal: the call to reflect on existential achievements, humanistic ideals and values and to fill concepts such as humanity, solidarity, art and spiritual resistance with life. 

Room 28 e.V. was founded by a circle of friends on April 3, 2007 in Berlin and entered in the register of associations on August 14, 2007. AG Charlottenburg VR 26708 B

... is to preserve and further develop the multimedia and international Room 28 proejct of remembrance and education, developed by Hannelore Brenner since 1996 and to pass on the legacy of the girls to younger generations. The basis for this is the book and exhibition “The Girls of Room 28” (2004) and the publications in the Edition Room 28 series, which began in 2014 with the publication of the authentic Theresienstadt diary of Helga Pollak, the heart and red thread of the book “The Girls of Room 28”. This was followed by further publications, all elements of the Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education.

When opportunities arise, we also implement other projects in the spirit of ‘Room 28’ and in accordance with our statutes. See for example: Musik im okkupierten Polen.

We also realize other projects in the spirit of Room 28 and our statutes, like "Music in occupied Poland" . The statutory mission is achieved by:

• Planning and realization of projects, events, seminars, symposia, publications, workshops in the fields of education;
• Events and projects in the fields of art and culture (e.g. exhibitions, readings, concerts, theater performances, workshops, master classes, competitions);
• Projects and events that promote international understanding: Projects on an international level, worldwide networking with congenial cultural actors, cultural exchange.  

The association understands itself as a circle of friends of the “Girls of Room 28”, Holocaust survivors who onxce lived together in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Room 28 in the the Czech Girls' Home L410. It is the mission of our association to anchor their legacy in the world, to give this legacy a voice, a form and one day a permanent home, to convey it to younger generations and make it effective in the service of a better world. 

For us, this legacy has many facets. It encompasses the memory of the children of the Theresienstadt ghetto (1941–1945), those who cared for them, and all those who were murdered in the Holocaust. It also encompasses the memory of their works and of people who survived the Holocaust and were driven into exile. It involves researching, preserving and sharing their intellectual and artistic heritage.

The association's essential concern is to highlight the existential importance of cultural achievements and humanistic ideals for our personal lives and for our society. We promote intercultural dialogue through art, culture and education and  encourage political responsibility and democratic participation.

The book and exhibition The Girls of Room 28 by Hannelore Brenner tell the story of the girls who once lived together in Room 28 of the Girls' Home L410 in the Theresienstadt ghetto. The first edition of the book was published in April 2004, the exhibition was first shown in Schwerin on 23 September 2004. 

In June 2025 the book was published in an entirely revised, updated and expanded new edition published in the series Edition Room 28, thus restoring the fundamental element of the Room 28 remembrance and education project from which everything else originated. 

What happened in the microcosm of "Room 28" in the years 1943-1944 - this is the focus of the exhibition The Girls of Room 28. It was created to provide a space for authentic documents, testimonies and memories and to give the survivors of Room 28 a medium that would make it easier for them to convey their experiences to young people in a vivid way. This was done with great success for many years.

Our mission can be fulfilled through the collaboration with schools, teachers and people active in the fields of education and arts who support our mission of passing on the legacy of the "Girls of Room 28" to young people and ensuring its future. 

The "Manifest" was written as part of our contribution to the "2021 commemorative year - 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany". It conveys some of the main concerns and goals of the project with the “Girls of Room 28” and of our association Room 28. You can read about our contribution on: Jüdische Identität.