Mary Elmes
Mary Elmes | |
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| Born | Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes 5 May 1908 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 9 March 2002 (aged 93) Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales France |
| Known for | Saving Jewish children from the Nazis, and being the only Irish person to receive the Righteous Among the Nations award |
| Spouse | Roger Danjou |
| Children | 2 |
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Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes (5 May 1908 – 9 March 2002) was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust, by hiding them in the back of her car. In 2015, she became the first, and to date only, Irish person honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, in recognition of her work in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.