Remembering Mary Elmes: A remarkable woman who ‘got things done’

We must never forget. Four simple words, yet they have breath-stopping resonance when they are spoken by Charlotte Berger-Greneche, one of the children saved by the Cork woman who was memorialised yesterday at the official opening of the Mary Elmes bridge.

Two of the children she helped rescue from deportation to Nazi extermination camps were in the city to recall how the Ballintemple native, along with her co-workers, saved 427 children during one of the darkest periods of the Second World War.