Saloni Kulkarni

In many ways, I liked it more than Anne Frank. Although I know that any and all of the Holocaust survivors and sufferers have their own stories, Hana's is a story that changes your perspective on the world. It doesn't describe the brutality of the Nazi camps but describes her wonderful life before those horror stricken days. The way Fumiko Ishioka worked to uncover the truth was amazing and the way that someone's life could affect people and children miles and centuries away is mind blowing. Absolutely a recommended read. I cried at certain points (not because of the war or the Nazis or any of that brutality but because of the events in Hana and her family's wonderful and peaceful life.)