Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine

 In March 2000, the Children’s Holocaust Education Centre in Tokyo received a suitcase from the Auschwitz Museum for its exhibition.  Written on the suitcase was a name, Hana Brady, the date 16 May 1931, and the word Waisenkind (German for orphan).  Armed with the little information she has, the Education Centre’s curator, Fumiko Ishioka, embarks on a year-long journey that takes her all the way to the Czech Republic to discover Hana’s story. 

A picture of the suitcase given to the Children's Holocaust Museum in Tokyo

Genre: Junior Nonfiction
Reading level: 10 years +
Publisher details: Morton Grove, Illinois: Albert Whitman, 2003