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Holocaust survivor Hannah Lewis says there are ‘no winners in war’

A Holocaust survivor who watched her mother being shot dead in front of her by the Nazis has warned there are “no winners in war”.

Hannah Lewis and her father Adam were the only members of her family to survive the genocide of the Second World War.

Now 86, Mrs Lewis has warned future generations to stay vigilant because “human nature is the same”.

Mrs Lewis, who grew up in Poland, was rounded up with her family and forcibly marched to a labour camp in 1943.

Towards the end of the war, her mother was lined up with

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