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Rudolph Goldberg escaped Nazi Germany at the age of 13 with his 11-year-old brother Werner, on a Kindertransport rescue mission.

5 live presenter Adrian Goldberg recorded this interview with his father before he died at the age of 87 in 2012.

Rudolph recalls the Kristallnacht attacks, a series of coordinated deadly attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 and 10 November 1938. Often referred to as the night of the broken glass, they mark the outbreak of mass violence against Jews which was to end in their mass murder.

“I remember that day as clear as if it happened yesterday," said Mr Goldberg, who said mother collected him early from school before the attacks started

From a window in their flat he saw a synagogue burning and hundreds of people following and shouting at a Jewish woman in the street.

Rudolph and Werner were rescued 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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