Portrait returned after 65 years

The missing picture had been kept in a castle near Berlin

A 94-year-old Birmingham man has been given back a portrait of his mother, confiscated by the Nazis in 1942.

Rudolf Beran was a young man when the Nazis took their family home and his father Phillip was taken to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

Their possessions were also taken, including his mother Irena's portrait.

His son Max posted a photograph of it on the internet after a book came out about the artist and it was found, stored in a castle near Berlin.

"I was very surprised when it was discovered," Rudolf told BBC Midlands Today. "It took two years to get it back.

"We put in a claim and finally we got it."

He said he remembered his mother as an impressive person. "She was studying singing," he said.

His father was among more than 1,000 Jews who perished in the Czech concentration camp.

Rudolf has also heard that, after years of asking, his family home in Germany is to be returned to him intact.

Now he is planning to write his memoirs.

"I do not want to give any more away," he smiled.