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    A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps
    A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps
    A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps
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    A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps

    By Clodagh Finn

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    Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered.
    The children called her 'Miss Mary', and they remember her kindness still. She gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to help them escape the convoys bound for Auschwitz.
    Turning her back on a brilliant academic career, Mary Elmes ventured into a war zone to help children in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she fled Franco's forces but continued to work with refugees in France when the Second World War broke out. In 1942, when it became evident that Jews were being deported to their deaths, she smuggled children to safety in the boot of her car. She was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo, but went straight back to work after her release.
    When the war was over, Mary married and settled down, never speaking about what she had done. Her story was forgotten. In A Time to Risk All her remarkable story is finally remembered as it should be.
    'A compelling portrait of an unsung Irish heroine of two wars' Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor, Sunday Independent
    'Brings to light the life of Mary Elmes, showing a remarkable, independent and courageous woman whose compassion knew no borders.' Yvonne Altman O'Connor, Culture and Education Director, Irish Jewish Museum
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9780717175604
    A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps
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    Clodagh Finn

    Clodagh Finn is a journalist and the bestselling author of A Time to Risk All, a biography of Mary Elmes, the Irish Oskar Schindler. She has worked as a features writer, columnist and sub-editor for the Irish Examiner, the Sunday Independent and the Irish Independent. She has a degree in French and Archaeology from UCD and has a particular interest in history and archaeology.

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