Inside Hana's Suitcase
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  • Summary: The delivery of a battered suitcase to Furniko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levine's best-selling book Hana's Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hanna Brady's name painted on it. Larry Weinstein's masterful film follows Furniko's search to discover the details of Hana's life, which leads to the discover of her brother George in Toronto. As small children they had been sent to Thereisenstadt for being Jewish after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. (Menemsha Films)… Collapse

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    Apr 17, 2012
    75
    In the end, what makes Inside Hana's Suitcase so powerful is the most traditional technique of all: authentic and eloquent storytelling by memorable characters.
  2. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Ray Conlogue
    Apr 17, 2012
    75
    What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Apr 17, 2012
    60
    A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly fractured means.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Apr 17, 2012
    25
    A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them.

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