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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

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

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.

Sat, 28 Sep, 2019

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

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

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

Wed, 14 Sep, 2016