The Girls of Room 28 - Hannelore Brenner

The Girls of Room 28 - Hannelore Brenner (2009)

Over 12,000 children were sent to Theresienstadt Internment camp, near Prague between 1942 and 1944. Most were on their way to Auschwitz and only a few hundred of those children survived. In this book ten of them, describe their time in the camp, and the measures taken to keep them alive.

Interesting, especially now as these women reach their 70s and 80s it is important that their stories are told, before they are lost. Especially sad are those who have not told their stories to their own families before now.

I struggled a little bit to keep going once I was a third of the way in, as it was a little repetative, but still admired the work of the author to retell these experiences. 3/5