Reading - Hana's Suitcase

Reading (December 25 – 27, 2016)

Hanna’s Suitcase an award-winning story by Karen Levine, the quest to solve a holocaust mystery

The story describes Hanna’s childhood in Nove Mesto na Morave and her destiny during WWII. This book is not only a diary as we know The Diary of Young Girl by Anne Frank. Hanna’s Suitcase bridges many worlds. It tells the remarkable and very moving story of how the curiosity of Japanese children inspires Fumiko Ischioka, a teacher at the Tokyo Holocaust Center, to embark in 2000, some fifty years after the Holocaust, on an epic search to give life to a name that appears on a suitcase – one of the many thousands of confiscated suitcases found at the Aushwitz  death camp.

Justification

I found this book under the Christmas tree.  I come from Nove Mesto na Morave as well as the Brady family, which made me read the book over Christmas time. (The fact that Mr Brady was not awarded on October 28 over President’s squabbles with Minister of Justice helped to get awareness about The Hanna Brody’s case and the Brady family.)

This book reads well, English is not complicated because it is devoted to young readers. However, I sometimes came across expressions I was not sure about.

Reflection

There are some sentences and expressions I had to look up. I also listed expressions that I would like to remember and possibly use.

A refined woman

Coarse paper

Worst rations

Clinging to each other

This wouldn’t fit through.

The unbridled happiness

In every jaunty step

A bundle of nerves