Hana Brady

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Hana Brady

Hana Brady (Hana "Hanička" Bradová, Germanized in the tag in her suitcase as "Hanna Brady") (May 16, 1931 in Nové Město na Moravě – 1944) was a Jewish girl and Holocaust victim. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine.

Along with her brother George, Hana was imprisoned by the Nazis as a Jew, and sent to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) prison camp. In 1944 she was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While her brother survived imprisonment by working as a laborer, Hana was killed.

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The Replica of Hana's Suitcase

In February 2004, Lara Brady, Hana's niece, discovered inconsistencies between the suitcase on display and the suitcase pictured with Hana's friend after the war in the 1960's. Not only did the physical suitcase appear newer than in the photographs, but the location of the handle was also reversed. In March, Fumiko and George Brady inquired about the suitcase with the director of the Auschwitz museum, who explained that a replica had been created based on the pictures after the original suitcase was destroyed in a fire in 1984. This fire was likely caused by arson (according to the director and police at the time) while on loan to an English exhibit in Birmingham. As the museum personnel omitted this fact when they loaned it to the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, the fact that the suitcase was a replica had gone unnoticed for several years. The family and the Center assert that even as such, the replica's contribution to the cause of human rights and peace education is not lessened by its lack of authenticity, and the destruction of the original also demonstrates that anti-semitism and intolerance still pervade society.

Bibliography

• Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase. (2002/2003) ISBN 0-8075-3148-0.

External links

• Radio Praha
• Hana's Suitcase - CBC Sunday Edition
• Family website
• Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center (Japanese)
• Hana's story, Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center (English)