In the organizer's words:

Reading and songs by Ilse Weber and the Theresienstadt cabaret.

An evening against historical forgetfulness and anti-Semitism. A plea for art, culture and humanity.

A friendship that survived the Holocaust, a testimony to human strength and a legacy that must not be forgotten: the book "The Girls of Room 28" tells the story of Jewish children who lived together and stuck together in the cramped conditions of the girls' home in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Memories and authentic testimonies - Helga Pollak's diary, Flaška's poetry album, poems and letters - form the heart of this documentary narrative, which the author Hannelore Brenner brings to life together with Maria Thomaschke and Andreas Jocksch and the pianist Katarzyna Wasiak.

Text and music - songs from the program of the ensemble "Zwockhaus", to which Maria Thomaschke and Andreas Jocksch belong - correspond with each other in a wondrous way and make tangible the elementary power inherent in art, what it can mean for people who are facing an abyss.

An accompanying exhibition "Schein und sein in Theresienstadt" will open on the same day at 6 pm.

With:

Maria Thomaschke
Andreas Jocksch (singing)
Katarzyna Wasiak (piano)

Hannelore Brenner (reading)