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Nazis killed my family, but I've 'no desire for vengeance'

Rudolph Goldberg, who was rescued as a child, said he doesn't feel vengence but does hope some people involved in killing his family then "suffered" during the war.

Rudolph Goldberg 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.

Rudolph was asked by his son, 5 live presenter Adrian Goldberg, if he feels vengeance to the people who 鈥榬obbed him of his parents and his family鈥.

Rudolph replied that vengeance is 鈥減ointless鈥 and 鈥渋t鈥檚 too late鈥 but he does get satisfaction that the city where he lived in Germany, Ratibor, was invaded by Russians during the war, so the people who took away his family鈥檚 business and possessions, may well in turn, have lost their homes and become refugees.

He said he hopes that some of the people who guarded his parents in concentration camps and operated the gas chamber 鈥渟uffered鈥 during the war too and came to regret their actions:

鈥淚 wonder if some of these afterwards felt sorry for my parents, for all of the Jewish people they tormented and killed,鈥 said Rudolph, who died in 2012 at the age of 87.

This clip, from an interview Adrian recorded with his father in 2008, 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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