Sir, – My late mother – a young Jewish refugee from Europe in Ireland in the late 1930s – managed to escape from meeting the same fate as both her mother and her younger sister at the hands of the Nazis. Had it not been for the help of some kind, decent Irish people who helped her to remain here in safety there is no doubt that she too would have ended up in Auschwitz. My mother used to tell us how – just before she made it to the safety of Ireland – her mother in Berlin would tell her that one day the living would come to envy the dead. Hearing recently in the media some of the horrific experiences of the few remaining living witnesses, I have been struck by how right my poor grandmother was. – Yours, etc,
IVOR SHORTS,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 16.