Name: Hana's Suitcase
ISBN: 9780807531471

Karen Levine

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Hana Brady was written on the outside. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions and the director decided to find the answers.

Hana's Suitcase

Laura Springall

We read this book together in my grade 8 class. I don't think I ever heard the other students that quiet before. A few people cried a bit (myself included). It's so wonderfully written, and such a powerful story.

A couple years ago, I had the honor of meeting Mr. George Brady at the premier for the movie version of this. He gave me copy of this signed by himself and Fumiko Ishioka. (<== Just wanted to share that, haha)

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.