About Us

Our primary concern: Humanity and human dignity

Our activities are intended to stimulate intercultural exchange and awareness of our common humanity through art, culture and education. We endeavour to promote civic courage and each person“s sense of their responsibility to play their part in shaping society.
We are especially dedicated to works of art and cultural contributions in the humanistic tradition that have been destroyed, perverted, robbed of their essence or condemned to obscurity by inhuman regimes such as the National Socialists. Our highest aim is to bring these artistic works to life, to commemorate those who created them and to rescue the essence of the human values contained in them so that they may sustain us today.
A keystone of our work is augmenting the exhibition “The Girls of Room 28, L 410, Theresienstadt” and the lively communication of these women“s story, so that young people and future generations may inherit their insights and memories.
Our first international pilot project: “The Last Chord: Theresienstadt”.
Our vision: to create a home for a permanent exhibition and found an international forum “Room 28” for events, meetings, exchanges and project development.

Origins and Name
Room 28 e.V. was founded on 3 April 2007 in Berlin and recognised as a charity on 4 July 2007.
Its name comes from Room 28 of the Girls’ Home on L 410 (the address of the building) in Theresienstadt concentration camp – a microcosm of the catastrophe of the years 1933-1945. From this place, despite all the tragedy that occurred there, radiates a powerfully positive message – a challenge to understand the meaning of cultural creation and humanist ideals for our lives as well as to fill concepts such as humanity, solidarity, art and spiritual resistance with life.
The Room 28 association developed from the “Room 28 Initiative” founded by Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick and the survivors of “Room 28”. It is rooted in the desire of these women to remember their friends who were murdered in the Holocaust and establish a monument for the children of Theresienstadt. The project with and about the „Girls of Room 28“ created since 1998 (theatre play, books, travelling exhibition) and the accompanying activities (readings, encounters with survivors, school projects) have released a great spirit, inspired other ideas and initiatives and attracted an international circle of friends, resulting in the founding of the „Room 28 e.V.“ association.

Spheres of Activity
Conception, planning and realisation of events and projects in the areas of education, civic education, art, culture and international understanding.

Our Emphases

History, humanism, ethics, international understanding, the Holocaust, exile, lost or forgotten art (music, literature, graphic art, performing art) and biographies.