Hana Brady | |
Birth Name: | Hanička Bradyová |
Birth Date: | 16 May 1931 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Death Date: | 23 October 1944 (aged 13) |
Death Place: | Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland |
Death Cause: | Hydrogen cyanide poisoning (Zyklon B) |
Relatives: | George Brady (brother) |
Nickname: | Hanička |
Hanička "Hana" Brady (born Hana Bradyová; 16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at 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.[1]
Hana Brady was born on 16 May 1931 in Prague, the daughter of Markéta (née Dubsky) and Karel Brady. Her family lived in Nové Město na Moravě in the Vysočina Region of Czechoslovakia. After the occupation of the whole of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany and the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939, the discriminatory Nuremberg laws began to be applied in this territory. Eight-year-old Hana and her older brother George (born Jiří Brady) watched their parents being arrested and taken away by the Nazis, and never saw them again.[2] 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. Her body was cremated with other victims in the ovens at the crematorium.[3]
Italic Title: | no |
Hana's Suitcase | |
Author: | Karen Levine |
Audio Read By: | https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/hanas-suitcase-a-true-story/146906 |
Illustrator: | Karen Levine |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Life of Hana Brady and her suitcase |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Set In: | Japan (2000) Czechoslovakia (1930s; 1938; 1939; 1940–41; 1941–42; May 1942; 1944) Czech Republic (2000) |
Publisher: | Second Story Press |
Pub Date: | 2002 |
Media Type: | Book |
Pages: | 112 |
Awards: | National Jewish Book Award for Special Recognition |
Isbn: | 9781842348413 |
Dewey: | 940.5318092 |
Website: | http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/ |
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.[4] Visiting Auschwitz in 1999, Ishioka requested a loan of children's items, things that would convey the story of the Holocaust to other children.[5]