Initiating and conducting projects in the realm of culture, history, education and ethics
Flag of "The Girls from Room 28" with their symbol, the "Maagal", created in 1943 in Theresienstadt (reconstructed after the right-side original piece)
Room 28 Projects, agency for cultural projects based in Berlin, Germany, has
developed from the story of “The Girls from Room 28,” which
conveys through various media the fate of the twelve to fourteen
year-old girls housed in Room 28, Building L410, in the concentration
camp Theresienstadt during the years 1942-1944. By extension, this
story evokes in microcosm the fate of all children of the Holocaust. It
also addresses the history of the Czech children’s opera Brundibár and its first performances in Theresienstadt.
Research for this project has exposed a fundamental issue typical for the special community of Room 28: the power of education in cultural, artistic, and human values in an inhumane age. As this issue is equally applicable to our own time, it has become the guiding theme of Room 28 Projects..
Room 28 Projects also offers individual services in Berlin for cultural and media matters.
My involvement with the survivors of Room 28, whom I first met in 1996, led to the radio-documentary Brundibár und die Kinder von Theresienstadt [Brundibar and the children of Terezin,] published on CD, to the bookDie Mädchen von Zimmer 28 [The Girls from Room 28], the theatre-playGhetto-Tears 1944, and to the touring exhibitionThe Girls of Room 28, L410, Theresienstadt. With the forthcoming German-Czech student cultural project The Last Accord, the translation of the book into Czech and English, a tour of the exhibition in the USA, and a documentary planned , Room 28 Projectshas an international audience and seeks partnership with similar ethics-related projects.
Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick, Berlin, 2007
Spindlermühle, September 2006
CBS team is visiting the annual meeting of the "Girls from Room 28"
Flag of "The Girls from Room 28" with their symbol, the "Maagal", created in 1943 in Theresienstadt (reconstructed after the right-side original piece)
