TRIVIA TRAIL: IRISH RECIPIENT OF RIGHTEOUS AMONG NATIONS AWARD

Question: What was the name of the only Irish person to receive the Righteous Among Nations award for rescuing people from the Holocaust?

Answer: Mary Elmes, born in the city of Cork on May 5^th, 1908.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/meet-mary-elmes-the-irish-woman-who-saved-children-from-the-horror-of-wwii-concentration-camps-421417.html

http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/about-the-program/honoring-the-righteous.html

 

 

 

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