The play, a dramatized version of this story, was written in the years 1998-1999, as a first result of my conversations with the ‘girls of Room 28’ and our annual meetings and workshops in Spindlermuehle/Czech Republic. Thanks to a grant from the Maria Strecker-Daelen Foundation a necessary research trip to Israel was made possible in 1998. 

An early version was put on stage under the title ‘Maagal’ by the Music Theater Workshop of the Freiburg Music School/Germany. In March 2005 actor and stage-manager Elmar Wittmann arranged a formidable performance with students of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in the same town. (Photo) 

In July 2006 the 8a class of the Rudolf Steiner School Hamburg-Wandsbek created, as part of a Brundibár performance, a play about the children in Theresienstadt which was inspired by the story of these girls. For their outstanding project they won a Bertini prize in 2007. 

In June 2008 the ‘Theater of the Youth’, performed the play, directed by Claus Tröger, in Salzburg/Austria. 

In 2009 Susanne Stich-Bender rehearsed the play with students from various schools in Ingoldstadt and successfully staged it under the title “We girls of room 28”. 

A youth opera based on the book of “The Girls of Room 28” premiered in January 2010 in Bonn/Germany under the title: ‘The Girls of Theresienstadt’. The work was commissioned by the Philharmonic Choir, Bonn and created by David Paul Graham (music) and Kerstin Baldauf (text). 

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