Hana's Suitcase

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See also: Hana's Suitcase — a website created by the Brady Family.

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They write poems about it, and draw pictures. They are draw to the story it tells and the tragedy it represents.

In a small, nondescript building in downtown Tokyo, the children — flocks of them — come to see a suitcase sitting in a glass case.

The owner of the suitcase was Hana Brady. She was born in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia in 1931, deported to Threisenstadt in 1942, and died at Aushwitz in 1944. She was 13.

The Tokyo Holocaust Education and Resource Centre acquired the suitcase last year. No further information about Hana came with it. Since then its director, Fumiko Ishioka, has made it her missoion to th find out more about Hana's story and scoured the world for it. In the end, her search brought her to Toronto and George Brady.

Georgy brady is Hana's older brother, the only member of their immediate family to survive. For him, the reappearance of the suitcase is Japan — 57 years after Hana's death — was absolutely astonishing.

Here, told by Fumiko Ishioka and George Brady, is the story of Hana's suitcase. As you listen to Hana's story, click on the photos for a virtual tour of George Brady's family photo album.