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Francis spoke on Wednesday during Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. More than one million Jews and others were killed at the complex, made up of over 40 concentration and extermination camps.
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A world-leading piano teacher tells of the cloud of horror she remembers from Auschwitz as she escaped from death .
Nelly Ben-Or, who narrowly avoided the Nazi-led concentration camp as it was full on the day she arrived, managed to hide out in an abandoned pig sty with her family.
Ms Ben-Or tells ITV News: I remember the whole cloud of horror, I lost my father - he was murdered in an horrific place by the Nazis. We were escaping from death, literally every day and night. We were on a train going to Auschwitz but the word went through, they are taking us to Auschwitz, she added.
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Together with her mother Antonina Podhoretz, she was able to flee to a nearby town where they hid in a former pig sty.
Nelly spent the rest of the war in hiding and eventually made the passage to the UK.
However her father died at the hands of the Nazis at the Janowska concentration camp.
Nelly said: I remember the whole cloud of horror, I lost my father - he was murdered in a horrific place by the Nazis.
Nelly and her mother, Antonina Podhoretz, managed to survive the rest of the war by hiding in a village and living in a former pig sty, but her father was tragically murdered by the Nazis