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In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912–94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 5 Up—Karen Levine's Hana's Suitcase (Albert Whitman, 2003), winner of numerous literary awards, is the foundation for this compelling documentary. Both versions combine historic and contemporary details about Hana Brady, a victim of the Holocaust, and her brother George, a survivor. The suitcase was the artifact that led a Japanese educator to pursue the history of this Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia who died in Auschwitz. Upon receiving the suitcase, Fumiko Ishioka, children's educator at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum, tried to learn as much as she could about Hana. When Ishioka discovered that Hana's brother was living in Canada, she reached out to him. Her visits to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More