This weekend we finally had my dad’s funeral and reflected on an amazing life which began in Czechoslovakia 90 years ago. He came to Britain as a ten-year-old refugee in 1939 and told me as a child how his mother and sisters waved him off on a train days after the Nazis invaded. He would never see them again because they were murdered in Treblinka in 1942. I grew up learning from him about the Holocaust and about the evil of racism and prejudice. I joined the Labour Party as a teenager 35 years ago to fight racism and I could not have imagined that I would leave to fight racism too, but I will never forget how in our final conversation he told me…

Source: The Times June 27, 2019 05:30 UTC