A Time To Risk All
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
South African (General)Transcript
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a time to risk all by Claude If, in the Children called her Miss Mary and they remember her kindness store, she gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to help them escape the convoys bound for a switch. Turning her back on a brilliant academic career, Merry elves 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 off her car, she was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo between 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 storey wass for Gotten Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the storey off this remarkable and no an Irish woman meeting. Many of those Children, Mary Elms saved here in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her storey is finally remembered as it should be