<p>Pope Francis kissed the number tattooed on the arm of a survivor of medical experiments at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp when she was introduced to him on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The pope listened intently as a Polish priest who accompanied Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, told him of her story. She then rolled up her left sleeve to show him the number - 70072. He kissed it and she hugged him.</p>.<p>Maksymowicz and her family were taken from their home in Belarus to the Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland in December 1943, shortly before her third birthday. She was put in a children's barracks, where she and others were the subjects of medical experimentation by Doctor Josef Mengele, according to a documentary about her life.</p>.<p>After the liberation of the camp in 1945, Russian soldiers assumed her mother Anna - tattooed with the number 70071 - was dead. She was adopted and raised by a Catholic Polish family.</p>.<p>Born Ludmila Boczarowa, she did not know her birth mother had survived and they were briefly reunited shortly before her mother's death in the early 1960s.</p>.<p>Maksymowicz, who lives in Krakow, Poland, is the subject of a documentary called "70072: The Girl Who Couldn't Hate. The true story of Lidia Maksymowicz".</p>.<p>She often meets young people in schools to discuss the dangers of extremism and populism.</p>.<p>The Nazis and their allies murdered around 6 million Jews, as well as others, in German-occupied Europe.</p>.<p>More than a million people, most of them Jews, were killed at Auschwitz. The vast majority were gassed to death.</p>.<p>Francis, who was holding a general audience in the Vatican's San Damaso Courtyard, visited Auschwitz in 2016.</p>
<p>Pope Francis kissed the number tattooed on the arm of a survivor of medical experiments at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp when she was introduced to him on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The pope listened intently as a Polish priest who accompanied Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, told him of her story. She then rolled up her left sleeve to show him the number - 70072. He kissed it and she hugged him.</p>.<p>Maksymowicz and her family were taken from their home in Belarus to the Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland in December 1943, shortly before her third birthday. She was put in a children's barracks, where she and others were the subjects of medical experimentation by Doctor Josef Mengele, according to a documentary about her life.</p>.<p>After the liberation of the camp in 1945, Russian soldiers assumed her mother Anna - tattooed with the number 70071 - was dead. She was adopted and raised by a Catholic Polish family.</p>.<p>Born Ludmila Boczarowa, she did not know her birth mother had survived and they were briefly reunited shortly before her mother's death in the early 1960s.</p>.<p>Maksymowicz, who lives in Krakow, Poland, is the subject of a documentary called "70072: The Girl Who Couldn't Hate. The true story of Lidia Maksymowicz".</p>.<p>She often meets young people in schools to discuss the dangers of extremism and populism.</p>.<p>The Nazis and their allies murdered around 6 million Jews, as well as others, in German-occupied Europe.</p>.<p>More than a million people, most of them Jews, were killed at Auschwitz. The vast majority were gassed to death.</p>.<p>Francis, who was holding a general audience in the Vatican's San Damaso Courtyard, visited Auschwitz in 2016.</p>