Holocaust survivor and educator Manfred Goldberg dies aged 95

Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg at Buckingham Palace earlier this year

Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to educating school children about the genocide of European Jews during World War Two, has died aged 95.

Mr Goldberg was just 11-years-old when he, his mother Rosa and his younger brother Hermann were deported to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia in 1941 before he was moved to the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland.

After being liberated by the British army in May 1945, Mr Goldberg and his mother moved to the UK the following year to be reunited with his father who escaped just before the war began. His younger brother did not survive.

He was made an MBE by the King in September for his services to Holocaust remembrance and education.

"He was truly extraordinary," said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, adding: "Manfred understood the power of education. He spent decades sharing his story with young people across the country."

At the beginning of the year, Mr Goldberg visited children in Shropshire to talk about his experiences, describing the "hell on earth" that followed when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany, where he was born in 1930, and deported him.

Between then and being imprisoned in a number of concentration camps, Mr Goldberg's brother was taken away, "his fate unknown", said the trust.

When he came to the UK, Mr Goldberg learned English and went on to complete an engineering degree. Learning was important to him, according to the trust "having been forced out of education as a young child".

In 1961, he met his wife Shary and they went onto to have four sons, several grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Mr Goldberg visited a school in Newport earlier this year as Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 80-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on 27 January 1945.

He told pupils: "My purpose for coming here is because what happened must never be forgotten, in order to make sure it can never ever happen again."

He said: "Once people understand what the Holocaust represents, I think every single one of them contributes to preventing it ever happening again.

"Silence never helps the oppressed."

More than six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945.

Hundreds of thousands of Romani people were also killed by the regime, as were gay men and political opponents of the Nazis.