The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
A Biography, War, World War II book. This is the memoir of 10 girls who passed through the Theresienstadt...
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors—women in their late seventies today. Weaving these interviews with excerpts from diaries that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will...
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About 1/4 of the way through, I called it quits. I was hoping for a more engaging read, but because the writing style doesn't really allow you to connect with the characters, it felt more to me like I was reading a chapter in a history book. This is the memoir of 10 girls who passed through the Theresienstadt interment camp, near Prague. They were some of the twelve thousand children who passed through the Theresienstadt on their way to Auschwitz from 1942-1944. Only a few hundred of those children survived the war and these 10 girls share their story and how they did it.The... The girls of the title all resided at one time or another in room 28 of one of the girl's homes at the concentration camp Theresienstadt. As a concentration camp Theresienstadt is famous for a number of things. First of all, it was known as Hitler's "showcase" camp, where he fooled the International Red Cross into believing that the...
