Biography
Hana Brady was born in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia on May 16, 1931. She and her older brother George watched their parents being arrested and taken away by the Nazis. They were never seen again. Hana and George were sent to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp. In 1944, Hana was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While her brother survived by working as a labourer, Hana was sent to the gas chambers a few hours after her arrival on October 23, 1944.
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