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

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

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

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

See also: Hana's Suitcase - a website created by the Brady family.