Corkwoman Mary Elmes fed over 80,000 starving French schoolchildren during WWII

Corkwoman Mary Elmes was awarded Israel’s highest honour for saving countless Jewish children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Less well known is her work helping to feed over 80,000 French schoolchildren who faced near-famine conditions. In an area of southwest France the size of Munster, all of the children knew her name...

Exclusive edited extract from Clodagh Finn’s biography of Mary Elmes: A Time to Risk All

Dear Mademoiselle,