Hana's Suitcase Analysis

Hana's Suitcase: CBC Broadcast, 2001
'Hana's Suitcase', a true story of a little girl from Czechoslovakia who was one of 1.5 million people murdered in the Holocaust. The story was told by Fumiko, a woman from Tokyo, Japan who has created a museum in Hana's honor, and featured Hana's older brother, George Brady. At the beginning of the broadcast, Fumiko told the audience that the first piece of Hana's story that she obtained was a suitcase of hers, from Auschwitz, in Germany. The suitcase had little information regarding Hana, except for her name and date of birth. When George heard of this suitcase, he knew immediately that the handwriting on the suitcase did not belong to his sister. As George continued to tell his story of his childhood being the only Jewish family in his town, he explains that his father was a very popular man at one time, and that their family was happy and healthy. Things
George was first to be interviewed, and later was admitted into the camp to work. When Hana was interviewed after her brother, she was declined access into the camp, and was then put into a gas chamber. Almost sixty years later, George got the first chance he has ever received to tell his stories through Fumiko; Fumiko stayed with George and his family while she got the rest of the information that she needed for her study of Hana. Although George had a family of his own in (including a daughter whom was named after Hana, Laura-Hana), and lived in a quiet and happy neighborhood in Canada, he told Fumiko that one thing he will never be at peace with is his sister's death. At the end of the broadcast, it is said that Hana would have been sixty-nine in the year of 2000. With all of the information Fumiko had obtained, she was able to return to Tokyo, where her students then became significantly intrigued to learn more about the tragic story of Hana and her