A Legacy from the Theresienstadt getto

June 2026 

After more than three decades of continuous remembrance work, Room 28 is undergoing a process of transformation. We are opening a new chapter and taking decisive steps toward realizing our vision—together with partners and allies who share our commitment and wish to help shape the future of our project of remembrance with is.

The Power of Remembrance. A Legacy from Theresienstadt.

The Girls of Room 28

Online-Exhibition | International Learning Platform | Exploring the Room 28 Media Archive 

The focus in phase 1: The Theresienstadt Diary by Helga Pollak and Brundibár and the Girls of Room 28. 

Udo Gittel, member of our organization and speaker of our educational team:

• The Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education, based on the precious authentic Theresienstadt Diary of Helga Pollak and on the story of The Girls of Room 28 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. That is why we strongly support this project. 

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 - the play by Hannelore Brenner is published in Edition Room 28 - 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 educational project rests. For this reason, an Educational Team has been established within our association.

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It is high time to digitize, explore and 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 on topics such as Nazi regime, Persecution of Jews, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Theresienstadt ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Holocaust and beyond.

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 following film Memory, produced by Eliana Schejter and Addie Reiss in Israel

Another film “I wander through Terezin: In the footsteps of the Girls of Room 28,” was produced as part of a German-Czech cooperation project. Some interviews were conducted in German, while others 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 is the key literature to the overall project. It 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 the 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. 

The Room 28 media and document archive is also to be transferred to a suitable institution in order to preserve and continue to promote the legacy of the "Girls of Room 28", the author’s literary works and our cause. If you are interested, let us know. We will gladly send you the brochure. The brochure is also available over Edition Room 28. You can write us an E-Mail: info@room28.net

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• The project’s target audience are schools and educational institutions, teachers and actors in the fields of education, art, and culture.
• The goal of the project is to build an international network, gain allies, advocates, and supporters, in order to fulfill the central mission of our association and the vision behind the Room 28 Project of Remembrance and Education.
• Another goal of the project is to bring the Room 28 project of remembrance and education into the heart of our society and embed it in school curricula – because it combats historical amnesia and Anti-Semitism and highlights the importance of art, culture and humanity.
• Partnership or cooperation projects with schools and educational institutions are the cornerstones of our project.
• www.room28.net/kooperationen/

The exhibition was created in 2004 and quickly became a traveling exhibition. Versions of the exhibition were produced in Czech, French, English, and Brazilian. There are further details about the modernization of our exhibition on: