Where does Hana's Suitcase take place?

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Likewise, where is Hana's suitcase?

This is a children's book, but it is a well done children's book. In March of 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. There was the name of a young girl painted on it, and from there the mystery progressed.

Additionally, what happened to Hana Brady? Partaking in art and music lessons, Hana tried to maintain any normalcy she could even after her brother was sent out east in September of 1944. Eventually she herself was deported in October of 1944, to Auschwitz. On October 23rd, 1944, Hana was killed immediately on arrival at Auschwitz.

Considering this, how did Fumiko get Hana's suitcase?

In 2000, Hana's suitcase was shipped to the Children's Holocaust Centre in Tokyo. When he centre's director Fumiko Ishioka received the suitcase, she set out on a mission to learn all she could of Hana's story. Her search led her to Toronto and George Brady, Hana's older brother.

What happened to Hana Brady's parents?

Three years into the Nazi occupation he and his sister Hana were separated from their parents, who were killed in Auschwitz. The children were sent to Terezín, but were later also split up. In a 2003 interview with Radio Prague's David Vaughan, George Brady recalled what happened to them in September 1944.