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Holocaust survivor: ‘I remember being yanked out of our flat’

Bernd Koschland was seven on the Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, on 9 November 1938 and living in the town of Fuerth, near Nuremberg.

He said: "I remember sort of being yanked out of our flat and being ordered to march to the space in the open in the town and there we were separated: men, women, children, and stood there in the bitter cold November night, me wearing short trousers."

Bernd said he remembered hearing shouts and screams and seeing the sky "lit up with red" as the synagogues were set alight.

His father was taken to the Dachau concentration camp.

Many years later, when Bernd was at the Yad Vashem Holocaust centre in Israel, he spotted his father in a photo of prisoners.

This clip is originally from Phil Williams on Wednesday 25 January 2017.

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