Fumiko ishioka biography examples

Since 1998, Fumiko Ishioka has been the director of the Holocaust Education Resource Centre in Tokyo, Japan. With a passion for making history meaningful to children, she has dedicated her life to educating others about the issues of racism and anti-Semitism.

As part of the centre, Ishioka started the children's group Small Wings to help inspire young people to recognize their own power and to actively fight injustice and intolerance of all kinds.

Right: Fumiko Ishioka

In 1995, Ishioka decided to create an exhibit of artifacts in the centre to educate children about the Holocaust.

She received a number of items from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, including a brown leather suitcase with a painted inscription: "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind [orphan]."  The story of the suitcase and Ishioka's quest to answer the questions that the children of Small Wings had about Hana was documented in the book Hana's Su