Publisher - Evans Brothers Ltd
Author - Karen Levine
Binding - Paperback
Pages - 128
Size - 19.5cm x 13cm

Age - 9+

Product weight 250g


A True Story

Tokyo, winter 2000

An empty battered suitcase with a polka-dot lining arrives from Auschwitz in a small Holocaust museum in Japan. Written on the front are the words Hanna Brady, a date and Waisenkind, the German word for orphan...

Czechoslovakia, summer 1942

Hana took out the brown suitcase with the polka-dot lining from under her bed. She packed a sleeping bag that would give her the smell of home, no matter how far away she was sent....

Hana's Suitcase is the remarkable story of how Fumiko Ishioka, the young woman who is the curator of the Holocaust museum, was compelled to discover the truth about what happened to Hana Brady. Her search takes her across three continents and back in time to the darkest days of wartorn Europe.