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. Speaking about his book My Family: The Memoir, for the first time, he told an audience at the Hay festival in Powys: “The reason I do this, and I do comedy for a living, which is an extraordinary thing to do at some level, I...