Clodagh Finn: Why Holocaust Memorial Day is more important than ever

We must take note of what survivors have said: be alert to the dangers and be careful about words

From left: Patrick Danjou, son of Mary Elmes —who, with her co-workers, rescued 427 children from deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 — with Charlotte Berger-Greneche and Georges Koltein, who were among the rescued children. Picture: Brian Lougheed

In 2019, Holocaust survivor Charlotte Berger-Greneche made a point of visiting the former school of Cork woman Mary Elmes, the woman who helped to save her life, because she wanted to tell the next generation of the horrors of World War ll.

Soon, she said, there will be no more witnesses to the systematic mass murder of 6m Jews and millions of others, and we need to tell them what happened.