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As the museum personnel had omitted this fact when they loaned it to the Tokyo
Holocaust Education Resource Center, the fact that the suitcase was a replica had gone unnoticed for several years. The family and the Center assert that even as such, the replica's contribution to the cause of human
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museum, who explained that a replica had been created based on the pictures after the original suitcase was destroyed in a fire in 1984, while on loan to an
English exhibit in Birmingham. This fire was likely caused by arson (according to the director and police at the time.).
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documentary. Karen M. Levine (born 1955), the producer of that documentary, was urged to turn the story into a book by a friend who was a publisher and whose parents were
Holocaust survivors. Said Levine:
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That really helped them a lot, to focus on this one little life that was lost. They could really relate her to themselves and try to think of why such a thing could happen to a girl like her. Why the
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and was selected as a final award candidate for the Norma Fleck award. It has been translated into over 20 languages and published around the world. In
October 2006, the book won the
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A suitcase – that really tells you a story of how children, who used to live happily with their family, were transported and were allowed to take only one suitcase.
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shows this journey. I thought an object like a suitcase would be a very important item to let children in Japan learn what happened to children in the
Holocaust.
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I went to
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The suitcase turned out to be a very capable means of telling the story of the Holocaust, reaching out to children at their level.
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began to be applied in this territory. Eight-year-old Hana and her older brother
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rights and peace education is not lessened by its lack of authenticity.
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