In Japan, the memorial event was organized by Tokyo Research Holocaust Education Center in Jewish Community Center in Tokyo by screening a new documentary film “Who Will Write Our Story”. Opening speech has been given by Mrs. Irit Savion-Waidergorn, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Israel in Japan, followed by a speech of Mr. Milan Slanec, chargé d´affaires, a.i. of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Japan.

During this special event Mrs. Fumiko Ishioka, a Japanese directress of Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, mentioned a personnage of Mr. George Brady, a Czech Holocaust survivor, who passed away in Toronto recently. The audience paid a homage of this extraordinary man. 

Mr. Brady became famous around the world as a protagonist in „Hana´s suitcase“, a bestseller written by Karen Levine about him and his sister Hana and their journey as Jewish children under the Nazis. The story of Hana´s suitcase had been revealed just thanks to Mrs. Fumiko Ishioka.