Origins and Name
Room 28 e.V. was founded on 3 April 2007 in Berlin and recognised as a charity on 4 July 2007.
Our association was inspired by an exceptional group of Holocaust survivors: ‘The Girls of Room 28, L 410 Theresienstadt’. Their desire to remember their friends who were murdered in the Holocaust is at the bottom of a multi-media project created since 1998 – theatre play, book, travelling exhibition and accompanying activities.
(see: www.room28projects.com)
The project has released a great spirit and attracted an international circle of friends and a network, resulting in the founding of Room 28.
Room 28 on L 410 – Longstreet 4 number 10, the address of the building in the former concentration camp Theresienstadt – represents a microcosm of the catastrophe of the years 1933-1945. However, despite all the tragedy that occurred there, this place also 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. This is why Room 28 has become our guiding light.
The story of ‘The Girls of Room 28’ is documented in the homonymous touring exhibition and book. The English version of the book will be published by Schocken Books, New York in September 2009.
