Waterford Crystal founder and ex-Nazi prisoner Charles Bacik honoured

He was the grandfather of Labour leader Ivana Bacik

At the event to honour Waterford Crystal co-founder and Czech glass entrepreneur Charles Bacik were Charlie Carew, 4, Charles Bacik's great grandson; with Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik; Mayor of Waterford City and County, Cllr Joe Kelly; and Metropolitan Mayor of Waterford Cllr Seamus Ryan. Picture: Patrick Browne

The founder of Waterford Crystal, who survived Nazi concentration camps before finding refuge in Ireland, has been honoured in his adopted city.

Descendants who came from Belgium, London and Dublin for the day said the Ukraine crisis brought home to them the "perseverance and courageousness" required by Charles Bacik when he arrived in Waterford as a refugee from Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Second World War.