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Hana Brady and her family were judged because they were Jewish.
When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the Brady's and other Jewish families had to live by different rules and laws. For example they had to wear yellow stars on their clothing when they left their home. When it got to the point to where Hana and her brother couldn't go to school, they lost all contact with their friends. Things just got worse from there for Hana. She was taken from her home to her uncle's house after her parents were arrested. Then after only about a year with her uncle and aunt, she was sent to Terezin for two years. Then after that she was sent to Auschwitz where she died as soon as she arrived. |
Hana is famous because after the war, in 1999, Fumiko Ishioka was loaned children's items from the Auschwitz concentration camp. The items she got were a shoe and a suitcase, Hana's suitcase. Her suitcase was put on display and used to teach children about the importance of the Holocaust at the Holocaust Resource Center in Japan. Children at the center were curious as to who The suitcase belonged to. Fumiko began researching Hana's story with a suitcase that only had Hana's name and 'Waisenkind', which means orphan in German. Eventually she found Hana's brother, George, who survived the war. Fumiko and George started teaching people about Hana, while her story was being published in books translated into different languages, with plays and even a film.
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