Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust Survivor who dedicated his life to teaching school children about the massacre of European Jews during World War I.
Mr. Goldberg was only one year old when he, his mother Rosa and his younger brother Hehemnen were taken to Latvia in 1941 before being transferred 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 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 remarkable,” said Karen Pllock, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Foundation.
At the beginning of the year, Mr. Goldberg visited children in Shropshire to talk about his experiences, “Hell on Earth” Defined That followed when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany, where he was born in 1930, and expelled him.
Among the former and imprisoned in several concentration camps, Mr. Goldberg’s brother was taken, “His fate is unknown”, said the trust.
When he arrived in the UK, Mr. Goldberg learned English and went on to complete an engineering degree. Learning is important to him, according to the trust that was “forced out of education as a child”.
In 1961, he met his wife Shery and they went on to have four sons, several grandchildren and one great grandson.
Mr. Goldberg visited a school earlier this year as Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 80-year anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration on January 27, 1945.
He told the students: “My purpose in coming here is because what happened must not be forgotten, to make sure it never happens again.”
He said: “Once people understand what the Holocaust represents, I think each of them contributes to prevent it from happening again.
“Silence never helps the oppressed.”
More than six million Jewish men, women and children were killed by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945.
Hundreds of thousands of Romani people were also killed by the regime, as were gay people and political opponents of the Nazis.