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Rudolph Goldberg, a Jewish man who escaped Nazi Germany as a child, recounts his experience of his father being taken to concentration camp called Buchenwald in 1938.

Julius Goldberg was held at the camp for a few weeks and then released. At that point, Jews weren't being systematically killed in concentration camps.

5 live presenter Adrian Goldberg recorded this interview with his father Rudolph, before he died at the age of 87 in 2012. Pictured are Julius Goldberg and his wife Ruth Goldberg.

Rudolph remembers waiting every day at a local train station as a boy, waiting for his father's return, and his joy when they were reunited:

鈥淥ne day, my dad appeared, and I barely recognised him in a way because he鈥檇 lost quite a bit of weight鈥�his head was shaven.

鈥淚 must have ran faster than I ever had done in my life, run all the way home, as fast I could, knocked on the door and said 鈥榙ad鈥檚 back dad back鈥� - I was so excited, so fantastic. That was one of the really happy moments for me, because he was back,鈥� said Rudolph.

Rudolph and his brother Werner were rescued from Nazi Germany as children, by the Kindertransport (German for children transport) programme. It matched Jewish children with host families abroad, saving thousands of lives. The brothers never saw any of their family again, as they were all killed in the Holocaust.

This clip is part of 5 live coverage marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, where more than 1m Jews were killed.

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