Unpublished Documents and Manuscripts
The Diary of Helga Pollak, © private property, represented by the author.
The Poetry Album of Anna Flachová © private property, represented by the author.
The Document Album of Vera Nath © private property, represented by the author.
Všechno, the Notebook of Handa Pollak, © private property.
Reports by the members of the Youth Welfare Department of Theresienstadt. Typescripts, Jewish Museum, Prague.
Essays by the girls of Girls’ Home L 410, written October 18, 1943. Subject: “What has made the deepest impression on you since you have been living in the Girls’ Home?” Archives Beit Theresienstadt, Israel.
Brundibár
Hans Krása (music) and Adolf Hoffmeister (text), Brundibár, represented by the music agency Boosey & Hawkes, Berlin, London, New York. www.boosey.com.
Brundibár: Eine Oper für Kinder von Hans Krása & Brundibár und die Kinder von Theresienstadt. Feature von Hannelore Wonschick. EDITION ABSEITS, 1999. Double CD with the opera and a radio documentary on the history of the opera with recorded recollections by survivors of Theresienstadt. www.room28projects.com.
ILLUSTRATION PERMISSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author and the publisher wish to thank the Girls of Room 28 for supplying many photographs and documents from their personal collections for publication in this book:
Anna Hanusová-Flachová
Helga Kinsky
Eva Stern
Handa Drori
Eva Gross
Vera Kreiner
Judith Rosenzweig
Ela Weissberger
Hanka Weingarten
Marianne Deutsch
Evelina Mer
Marta Mikul
Eva Sohar
Eva Vit
Miriam Jung
Still from the propaganda film Theresienstadt: Dokumentarfilm aus einem jüdischen Siedlunzgsgebiet Theresienstadt: Documentary of a Jewish Settlement. Photograph © Národní Filmovy Archiv v Praze National Film Archive in Prague.
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
© Archive Beit Theresienstadt, Givat Chaim Ichud, Israel.
From Zeichne was Du siehst: Zeichnungen eines Kindes aus Theresienstadt/Terezin. Draw What You See: Drawings of a Child of Theresienstadt/Terezin by Helga Weiss. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998.
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
Moon Landscape, 1942–44, by Petr Ginz. Drawing, pencil on paper. Gift of Otto Ginz. Reprinted by permission of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem.
Private collection.
Private collection.
Reprinted by permission of the Theresienstadt Memorial.
From Zeichne was Du siehst: Zeichnungen eines Kindes aus Theresienstadt/Terezin. Draw What You See: Drawings of a Child of Theresienstadt/Terezin by Helga Weiss. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998.
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
Private collection.
Reprinted by permission of the Theresienstadt Memorial.
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
Reprinted by permission of the Theresienstadt Memorial.
© Beit Theresienstadt Archive, Givat Chaim Ichud, Israel.
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
© George Brady, Canada.
© Alice Sommer.
© Chava Linden.
Private collection.
Watercolor sketch from The Book of Alfred Kantor: An Artist’s Journal of
the Holocaust, by Alfred Kantor and John Wykert. New York: Schocken Books,
© Židovské Muzeum v Praze.
Reprinted by permission of the Theresienstadt Memorial.
© Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick.
Translation copyright © 2009 by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Schocken Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in Germany as Die Mädchen von Zimmer 28: Freundschaft,
Hoffnung und Überleben in Theresienstadt by Droemer Verlag, Munich, in 2004.
Copyright © 2004 by Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brenner, Hannelore.
[Madchen von Zimmer 28. English]
The Girls of Room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt / Hannelore
Brenner; translated from the German by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-8052-4270-6
1. Jewish children in the Holocaust—Czech Republic—Terezín (Severoceský kraj)—
Personal narratives. 2. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)—Biography.
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Czech Republic—Terezín (Severoceský kraj)—
Biography. 4. Holocaust survivors—Biography. I. Title.
DS135.C97A127 2009 940.53′18092—dc22 [B] 2009002344
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