Hannelore Brenner (-Wonschick), Berlin, Germany, is  journalist and author of the book, exhibition and play The Girls of Room 28. In 2014 she started the Edition Room 28 with the publication of the authentic diary from Helga Pollak-Kinsky written in Room 28, Ghetto Theresienstadt. See:  Mein Theresienstädter Tagebuch 1943-1944 (My Theresienstadt Diary 1943-1944). 

Hannelore Brenner is author and editor of the brochures to the Room 28 Educational Project -see Compendium English

and the author if the children's book Brundibár. Wie Aninka und Pepíček den Leierkastenmann besiegten, which was puiblkished in 2023. 

The Educationall project has a special website: www.room28education.net

The first books and some other publications like the Brundibár-CD were published under her name of marriage: Hannelore Wonschick. Since 2009 the author's name corresponds to her maiden name Hannelore Brenner. Official name: Brenner-Wonschick. Photo credit: www.evelinfrerk.de

In the frame of her research for the radio feature Brundibár and the Children of Theresienstadt Hannelore Brenner met survivors of the Theresienstadt ghetto and allied with a special group of women and started a joint Jewish-German Holocaust remembrance project in alliance with them. In 2004 she published the book and created the exhibition, both called "The Girls of Room 28". - The Brundibár radio feature was produced by "Sender Freies Berlin" (1997) and, in new production, by Austrian Radio, Vienna (1998). The feature is part of a double-CD released by the label EDA records. (Image)

In 2004, the book Die Mädchen von Zimmer 28: Freundschaft, Hoffnung und Überleben in Theresienstadt was published by Droemer Verlag, Munich. This documentary reportage and multi-biography tells the story of a group of children from Theresienstadt for the first time on the basis of authentic documents, above all Helga Pollak's original diary from Theresienstadt. The book also tells the story of the performances of the children's opera Brundibár in Terezín. 

Further editions by Knaur, Weltbild and in 2008 by Aufbau Verlag, Berlin followed. The book was  published in the Czech Republic in 2006 by Barrister & Principal and, in a newly translated and updated edition, in 2022 by Albatros Media Prague. The American edition was published by Schocken Books, New York (2009) and the Polish edition by Swiat Ksiazki, Warsaw (2013 and 2021). A Brazilian edition was published in 2014.

The exhibition The Girls of Room 28, L 410 Theresienstadt was created in 2004 in order to give space to the authentic documents and to have a means to convey the story to younger generations together with the survivors of Room 28. It was shown since then in more than 70 places in Germany. A Czech, French and an English version followed and exhibitions in many places - also in the European Commission in Brussels, the United Nations in Geneva and in the Welsh National Opera House, Cardiff. A newly designed exhibition opened in 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil: As Meninas do Quarto 28. 

 From 2005, after the exhibition came to life,  Hannelore Brenner organized many events and projects under the logo and brand "Room 28 Projects". She arranged encounters with survivors of the Holocaust, readings, often with Helga Pollak-Kinsky who read from her diary, and often along with artists from the realm of music and theatre. She also inspired to many projects realized by teachers, schools or artists.

The multimedia memorial project "Room 28" was well received internationally. Teachers and educators in particular recognised the diverse historical and human dimensions of the story presented in a variety of genres - Room 28, a nucleus of humanity. Over the years, a multi-layered educational project has emerged, which is presented on its own new website. www.room28education.net

The NPO "Room 28" was founded in Berlin in 2007. Since 2008 Hannelore Brenner manages the NPO association Room 28. It is a small circle of friends who support projects with and about and in the spirit of "The Girls of Room 28". Its main mission is to keep alive the legacy of the "Girls of Room 28" and to pass it on to young and future generations. www.room28.net

In 2023 Hannelore Brenner was awarded the  Federal Cross of Merit of Germany.