The Old Brown Suitcase

The Old Brown Suitcase by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz is an award winning book that tells the absorbing story of a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds.

Not long after the Second World War, Slava, just fourteen, immigrates to Canada with her parents, sister, and her brown suitcase that holds all that is left of her lost childhood, memories that now haunt her new life. Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, the hunger, stench and disease, the fear and humiliation of being incarcerated be...