100s of children saved, 6 months in Nazi prison, tracked down after death… the story of ‘Ireland’s Oskar Schindler’

NINE Jewish children were about to be deported to Auschwitz – where their deaths were inevitable. But a little-known Irish woman, Mary Elmes, bundled them into the back of her car saving their lives, as she did for hundreds of others. Between August and October 1942, Mary Elmes, born in Cork, worked tirelessly to save…