Hana's Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery, (Paperback)

from Rvalencia

I've always loved things dealing with the Holocaust, but this book brought it to a whole other level! I love how the author aligned the stories so the reader was never bored and always eager to see what happens next. This book combines a teacher in Japan's journey to find out all she can about Ha...

from mferaci

Hana's Suitcase tells two stories at the same time. One story is about Fumiko Ishioka and her research to find out who Hana is and what her story is. The second story is about Hana and her life before and during the Holocaust. Eventually the two stories come together and tell of Hana's legacy. Th...

from ebrossette

This true story switches between two plotlines: Hana, a young Jewish girl who is sent to a concentration camp, and the Small Wings, a Japanese class who wants to know Hana's history. This book is informative and still interesting and approaches a very important topic in a way thats easy to unders...

from bhellmay

This is a very sad, but realistic book about the Holocaust in Europe during World War II. To my opinion, it is a very good way how it goes along with these two stories, on the one hand in Japan in recent days and on the other hand during World War II. The book describes in a very touching way wha...

from tgallant

This is an amazing story of Fumiko Ishoka's search to teach the children of Japan, another part of the war, to teach them tolerance and compassion. Fumiko is the curator for the Children's Holocaust Centre in Tokyo. She decides that she needs items for display and asks the Auschwitz Museum for it...