New play tells of the Cork woman who helped Jewish children escape the Nazis

A Cork woman who helped Jewish children escape the Nazis is among the subjects of a new play, writes Colette Sheridan

THE sometimes forgotten courageous women who stood up to fascism and Nazism during World War II are the subject of the premiere of a play, The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII, at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College.

Presented by Dublin-based Smashing Times Theatre Company, which promotes peace and social justice through the arts, the play consists of monologues which are re-imagined moments from the lives of women, caught up in the war, including Mary Elmes, a Cork woman who saved Jewish children from the gas chambers.