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“How is it possible to sum up all these lives, of all these people who have been taken away from us?” asked Hisam Choucair of the Inquiry. “We are broken.”

I put together the Guardian’s tributes to the Choucairs, published last week and based on interviews with the three girls’ teachers, and colleagues of their parents. The six Choucairs - Sirria, Nadia, Bassem, and their children Mierna, Fatima and Zaynab - were the biggest family group killed in Grenfell and I was really moved to hear more about their lives and background from Nadia’s brother Hisam and in the video featuring their sister Sawsan.

This was a family tightly woven into the fabric of their north Kensington neighbourhood - all six of them were well known, and are much missed at Avondale Park school, where Nadia worked and where Zaynab had joined the nursery on her third birthday just a month before she was killed. But they also had strong links with their country of origin, Lebanon, where Hisam described the house Bassem built in the family’s village “with his own hands”.

Hisam said his mother Sirria had prepared all her children “for what we would have to face in life’. She could never have imagined that her surviving children would have to face such overwhelming tragedy - or the fight for justice they are now embarked on.

Headteacher Katy Blackler described how one day when Bassem arrived at school on his bicycle and was asked if he was there to collect his daughters, he said ‘I’m here to collect my beautiful wife’. It’s one of the phrases that’s stayed with me.

The loss of so many people is just devastating. How brave their relatives are to speak so openly.