Brundibár. How Aninka and Pepíček defated the organ grinder. Retold for children by Hannelore Brenner with paintings by Maria Thomaschke. Softcover, 68 p. ISBN 978-3-9819140-7-8 

Brundibár, the opera by Hans Krása (music) and Adolf Hoffmeister (libretto), created in 1938, is a classic of children’s opera literature and has become a tribute to the memory of the children in the Theresienstadt ghetto. The adventure of Aninka and Pepíček who together with a sparrow, a dog, a cat, and the children of their town defeat the wicked organ grinder, turns into a parable about the importance of humanity and the power of solidarity. What its creators experienced, missed, and hoped for in their Czech homeland in 1938 they translated into the realm of fairy-tale utopia.

Rights: The German original edition was published by the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in Berlin with co-publisher Edition Room 28. Rights are available from the author/Edition Room 28 in agreement with Boosey & Hawkes.

The Ukrainian, Hebrew, English and Czech edition are published by Edition Room 28. The Ukrainian and Hebrew editions are part of a project with the NPO organization "Room 28" in the spirit of solidarity. More on: www.room28.net/brundibár

The Girls of Room 28

New updated edition, June 2025

440 S., softcover. With many images. ISBN 978-3-9819140-5-4

The Polish rights are held by Swiat Ksiazki (Warsaw), the Czech rights by Albatros Media Prague.

"The Girls of Room 28" were Jewish children sent from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt concentration camp during WWII. They were among the around 75,700 Jews from what was termed by the Germans "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia", who, with the incursion of German troops into their country, lost their homes, their property and their freedom and were eventually deported to Theresienstadt, a small fortress town near Prague that was transformed into a ghetto for Jewish people. There, in Room 28, in the Girls’ Home L 410, their paths crossed...

Elie Wiesel: 'This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable.'

Madeleine Albright: 'The Girls of Room 28 was so important to my research. It is a superb book and a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.'

Madeleine Albright in a letter to the author.

Karen Zolko: 'The story of "The Girls of Room 28" is a tool for a better world and future.' Karen Zolko  created the wonderful and most successful exhibition  As Meninas do Quarto 28 in Brazil

My Theresienstadt Diary

Hardcover, 288 p. witj many images and a coloured section. First edition 2014. ISBN 978-3-00-043804-2 

The Czech rights of the Diary of Helga Pollak-Kinsky are held by Albatros Media Prague.

The Diary of Helga Pollak takes readers into the world of a 12-13-year-old girl from Vienna for whom writing is a vital means of reflection and an equally vital form of dialogue with an imaginary friend. In the book "The Girls of Room 28", Helga‘s diary became the heart of the story and the notes of her father Otto Pollak an equally important part.

Peter Gstettner
'The story of young Helga, who survived the Theresienstadt ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz, is a model case for remembering and commemorating the fate of European Jews. Her  autobiographical writings are comparable to Anne Frank‘s diary.'
Peter Gstettner, Austrian educationalis. He wrote the epilogue for the book.

Erich Hackl

'Helga‘s diary is a unique document of resistance, because the document speaks of an adolescent who rises above her circumstances.'
Erich Hackl, Austrian author. in "Die Presse", Vienna, 30 June 2014

Lebenslauf auf einer Seite. Vita on one Page

Softcover, 143 p. ISBN 978-3-00-051933-8

Evelina Merová, née Landová, born on 25 December 1930 in Prague, was eight years old when Nazi Germany accupied her homeland on 15 March 1939 and her life turned upside down. 

In July 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. There she lived until December 1943 in Room 28, Girls' Home on L 410 in Theresienstadt. In December 1943, Evelina was forced onto a transport. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she lived for over half a year in the children’s block organized by Fredy Hirsch in the Theresienstadt family camp.

In July 1944, she survived the final selection. Further horrible months followed in Stutthof, Dörbeck and Guttau. There she was liberated by the Russian armee and, severly wounded, brought to a hospital in Deutsch-Eylau, then on a train to Sysran. On the way she met the Russian military doctor Dr. Mer. When he realized that Eva had lost her entire family, he offered her a new home - in Leningrad. In the second part of the book she tells about her new life that began on 1 September 1945 on Leningrad...