A Legacy. Our Current Project:

17 June 2026 

Digital Exhibition | International Platform (Website)

We plan a digital Exhibition which incorporates key audio and video clips from the Room 28 Media Archive and which also serves as a platform/website for the Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education.

It focuses in its first phase on the topics Theresienstädter Tagebuch von Helga Pollak (Terezin Diary by Helga Pollak) and on Brundibár and the Girls of Room 28.

Step by step we will add further topcis and aspects. 

Udo Gittel, Mitglied unseres Vereins und unseres pädagogischen Teams:

• The Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education offers an extraordinary and unique opportunity for historical political education in the fight against oblivion and in the face of the growing danger of Antisemitism and the threat to democracy. It would be an immeasurable loss if the project with all its publications and materials, with its exhibition and the Media Archive were to be lost, and if all this would not made available in an appropriate manner.

Like the Otfried-von-Weißenburg-Gymnasium in Dahn (Palatinate Forest) in January 2026, other schools have brought the story of the “Girls of Room 28” to the stage since 2004, some as a play, some in the form of dramatic readings accompanied by music. Collaborations with schools have since become one of the cornerstones of the Room 28 educational project, and teachers are among the key figures on whom our hope for the future of the Room 28 remembrance and educational project rests. For this reason, an Educational Team has been established within our association.

It is high time to explore, to catalogue the extensive and valuable Room 28 Media Archive and to make it available for the Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education. But that's not all: The archive is to be made internationally accessible to the general public as a resource for research and historical education (Nazi regime, Persecution of Jews, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Theresienstadt ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Holocaust).

The Audio and Film Archive by the author Hannelore Brenner encompasses an amount of audio recordings of interviews with eyewitnesses from the circle of the “Girls of Room 28” and with other survivors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. It started with her work for the radio documentary “Brundibár and the Children of Theresienstadt” and continued until the publication of the book “The Girls of Room 28” in April 2004. Interviews were conducted in German and English.

Film footage shot in 2003 in London and Spindlermühle, in 2006 in Spindlermühle and Terezin, and in 2010 in Marienbad is also part of this media archive, as are recordings of events featuring the “Girls of Room 28” beginning in 2004. In addition, there are already produced radio features and short films, such as the film “Memory Drops,” produced in Israel, or the film “I wander through Terezin: In the footsteps of the Girls of Room 28,” which was produced as part of a German-Czech cooperation project. Some interviews were conducted in German, while others – such as those recorded in London and Spindlermühle in 2003 and 2006 – were made in English. - Excerpts from the audio and film recordings will be incorporated into the Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education and in the digital Exhibition.

The brochure The Creation of a Lasting Memory (English language) by Hannelore Brenner gives an insight into a unique German-Jewish project which developed over a period of 30 years and roots in the desire of the survivors of Room 28 of Girls’ Home L 410 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto to create a Lasting Memory. From the very beginning the project was driven by the vision and hope, to make their wish come true.

The brochure is also meant as an offer to international film-producers and people from the world of theatre to get involved and play a key role in this Creation of a Lasting Memory by producing a Feature and Documentary film and a Music Theatre Play as these are the most powerful ways to keep their story and their messages alive. 

Feel free to request a copy of the brochure.

Insight into the broschure on the Website of Edition Room 28:

 www.edition-room28.de/broschure

The exhibition was created in 2004 and quickly became a traveling exhibition. Versions of the exhibition were produced in Czech, French, English, and Brazilian. For more information on this and the planned modernization of the exhibition, go to: “Exhibition".