It's Holocaust Rememberance Day... My grandparents escaped the Nazis on one of the very last trains out of Germany. Many of my family weren’t so lucky. Here’s a few of them… (a thread 1/8) Here's my grandma’s sister, Fania. Murdered with her husband, Michael in her home village of Kolomea (now in Ukraine) 1942

Thread... Reading @baddiel’s excellent book takes me back to the height of the ‘antisemitism saga’ last year, when so many non-Jewish people - were telling me and my fellow Jews, that what we thought - and knew - was antisemitic, actually wasn’t.... It was crazy-making - and left a feeling of mounting dread. It made me think of several incidents I had growing up - having ‘Yiddo’ shouted at me from passing cars, being sieg-heiled on the bus by a group of skinheads, told I was gonna be ‘taken outside and gassed’...

Thread: My dad is the world’s worst texter and this is the craziest text exchange I’ve ever had with him... Back story: My mum was going away for the weekend and told me they had a wasp’s nest at home and could I liaise with my dad via text to sort it out. What follows are two full days of text messages. Wait for the punchline...