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Miss Mary to the rescue: How a Cork woman helped to save hundreds from concentration camps
Miss Mary to the rescue: How a Cork woman helped to save hundreds from concentration camps
Bernard Wilson has written a children’s book about Mary Elmes, the Cork woman who helped to save hundreds of youngsters from Second World War concentration camps. Rowena Walsh reports

Thu, 04 Jun, 2020

Meet Mary Elmes: The Irish woman who saved children from the horror of WWII concentration camps
Meet Mary Elmes: The Irish woman who saved children from the horror of WWII concentration camps
A talented student from Ballintemple had a respectable academic career ahead of her, but as Clodagh Finn discovers, she shelved that future to become an aid worker and helped to spare countless children the horror of WWII concentration camps

Sat, 17 Sep, 2016

Forgotten tales about women in war are being retold
Forgotten tales about women in war are being retold
Mary Elmes, referred to as the ’Irish Oskar Schindler’, was posthumously honoured by Israel and France for rescuing Jews in WWII but her name is not known here. That may be about to change, writes Clodagh Finn.

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