This excerpt provides an intimate historical account of a group of Jewish girls, known as the Girls of Room 28, who were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt Ghetto during the Holocaust. The text uses diary entries, recollections, and interviews from survivors like Helga Pollak and Anna Flach, often focusing on their efforts to maintain a sense of community, education, and cultural life through activities like plays, music, and art classes led by dedicated counselors like Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. It contrasts these attempts at normalcy and intellectual development with the brutal reality of their confinement, including overcrowding, starvation, disease, the fear of transports to the East (like Auschwitz), and the deception of the Red Cross inspection (the "Potemkin village" facade). Ultimately, the source functions as a testament to the enduring memory and resilience of the survivors who strive to honor those who perished.

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