Hana's Suitcase
Hana Brady During the awful events of the disastrous and brutal Holocaust , one of the millions of Jews murdered was a thirteen year old girl called Hana Brady. Upon her arrival at Auschwitz on 23rd October 1944, Hana was led to an immediate death in the Gas Chambers where she met her early end as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Young Hana's story was revealed to the world in 2000, where a delivery of a Holocaust victim's suitcase arrived at Tokyo Holocaust Education Research Centre. Hana grew up in Czechoslovakia with her parents and her older brother George. She was born on 16th May 1931. In 1939 the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and exercised the same fascist rules as they had done and did in other countries that they took over such as Germany and Poland. These laws excluded and banned Jews from partaking and visiting the majority of the places in the village, e.g.: the cinema and certain shops as well as forcing each member of the Jewish community to wea...