Hana Brady
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| Born |
Hana Hanička Bradyová 16 May 1932 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 23 October 1944 (aged 13) Auschwitz Birkenau, Nazi Germany |
| Cause of death | Carbon monoxide poisoning |
| Parent(s) | Marketa Brady (mother) Karel Brady (father) |
| Relatives | George Brady (brother) |
Hana Brady, actually Hana "Hanička" Bradyová (16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944), was a Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp of Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.
Hana Brady was born on 16 May 1931 in Prague, Her family lived in Nové Město na Moravě in the Czechoslovak province Moravia-Silesia. After the occupation of the "rest of Czechoslovakia" by Nazi Germany and the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (15 March 1939), racist Nuremberg laws began to be applied in this territory. Eight-year-old Hana and her older brother George (Jiří) watched their parents being arrested and taken away by the Nazis. They were never seen again. Hana and George were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1944, Hana was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While her brother survived by working as a labourer, Hana was sent to the gas chambers a few hours after her arrival on 23 October 1944.
The story of Hana Brady first became public when Fumiko Ishioka (石岡史子, Ishioka Fumiko), a Japanese educator and director of the Japanese non-profit Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, exhibited Hana's suitcase in 2000 as a relic of the concentration camp. Visiting Auschwitz in 1999, Ishioka requested a loan of children's items, things that would convey the story of the Holocaust to other children.
A suitcase – that really tells you a story of how children, who used to live happily with their family, were transported and were allowed to take only one suitcase.
[The suitcase] shows this journey. I thought an object like a suitcase would be a very important item to let children in Japan learn what happened to children in the Holocaust.
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