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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