Hip dysplasia left Hannah’s beloved uncle Gustav lame. On Kristallnacht, Nazi thugs threw him down the stairs in the wheelchair he had built. In her distress she believed the violence was punishment from a vengeful God, aware the family were no longer able to eat kosher. 6/
Until she was expelled. The village she grew up considered itself progressive, at least in its Nazi ideals. Jewish children weren’t banned from attending school until late 1938 across Germany. In Hannah’s village it had happened by Autumn 1935. 5/
1/ Capturing the Holocaust: Documentary filmmaking, Remembrance & family stories
👨: @AFinchTweets
🗒️: #HMD talk honours the memory of genocide victims. BAFTA/Emmy-winning Filmmaker @AFinchTweets shares ways to preserve their stories as survivors pass on
🗓️: Fri 31 Jan, 5:30pm
Just insanely good - @MsKrystalEvans take a bow. So assured, so arresting. So funny. Saw tonight’s show and it was simply perfect. (For the first and only time) I support Chelsea.
Forgot to tweet about it at the time, but @MsKrystalEvans has one of the most beautiful, well written, heartfelt, but incredibly funny hours of standup you will see this Fringe.
Forgot to tweet about it at the time, but @MsKrystalEvans has one of the most beautiful, well written, heartfelt, but incredibly funny hours of standup you will see this Fringe.
It’s publication day! I’ve put my heart & soul into writing WHAT’S IN A NAME?, the story of my name & those of my best friends, of race & immigration in 20th c UK. So grateful to my friends & to the team @SceptreBooks. A huge thanks also to @MichaelRosenYes for his generous quote.
Order at: https://t.co/PAajlyAe71
@Kate7Barker #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #whatsinaname
You can need full time care and support for your disability and still be a carer and support to someone else; this is the complicated reality in a family full of disabled people. But it works for us.