<b>This award-winning true Holocaust story, newly updated, connects generations through one woman’s quest to find the truth behind a mysterious suitcase.</b><br><b></b><br>In March 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education center in Tokyo, received an empty suitcase from the museum at Auschwitz. On the outside, in white paint, were the words “Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Orphan.”<br><br>Fumiko and the children at the center were determined to find out who Hana was and what happened to her all those years ago, leading them to a startling and emotional discovery.<br><br>The dual narrative intertwines Fumiko’s international journey to find the truth about Hana Brady’s fate with Hana’s own compelling story of her life in a quiet Czech town, which is shattered by the arrival of the Nazis, tearing apart the family she loves. This suspense-filled work of investigative nonfiction draws in young readers and makes them active participants in the search for Hana’s identity.<br><br><u><br>Praise for <i>Hana’s Suitcase</i></u><br>• “Hana wanted to become a teacher, and surely through this little book her dream is being realized.” —<b>Archbishop Desmond Tutu</b>, from his new foreword to<i>Hana’s Suitcase</i><br>• “The account . . . is part history, part suspenseful mystery . . . with an incredible climactic revelation.” —<b><i>Booklist</i><br></b>