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Hana's Suitcase is a surprisingly well written and entertaining story, despite the tragic tone contained in the book.This isn't a simple story about the Holocaust. This is the tale of a young childwho is too innocent to face the horrors she had to endure, and also of a lady willing to do anything to...
The book goes back and forth between two stories: one about Hana and her family before and during the Holocaust, and one about a Japanese woman who received a suitcase and searched for more information about Hana and her family.I like how the stories blend. One was equally as important as the other....
Hana's Suitcase, by Karen Levine, published in 2007, is the true story of a young girl named Hana Brady, who was taken away by the Nazis as a small child along with her older brother George, and her suitcase, which through a chain of events ended up in Japan. It is also the story of a Japanese woman...
A true story. A museum curator in Japan requested some items from Europe that had been possessions of Holocaust victims. She was sent a suitcase that belonged to a little girl. Some Japanese children were curious about the little girl and they began to see what they could find out about her. A sad y...
From Wikipedia:The story of Hana Brady first became public when Fumiko Ishioka of the Japanese non-profit Tokyo Holocaust Educational Resource Center exhibited Hana's suitcase in 2000 as a relic of the concentration camp. Wanting to learn more about the relic, Fumiko began researching Hana's life an...
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