David Baddiel says comedy in new memoir helps him process family trauma

Speaking of his new book at Hay festival, Baddiel says pain of fleeing Holocaust was passed down through generations

David Baddiel has said he makes comedy to process the intergenerational trauma passed on through the experiences of his mother and grandparents of fleeing the Holocaust.

Baddiel’s mother was born in Nazi Germany and arrived in the UK as a baby in 1939 after her father was persecuted during the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.

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