#Otd 1963: Death of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty CBE. The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican! Born Co Cork, raised Killarney, Kerry. Saved 6,500 Allied soldiers & Jews from German Gestapo & SD in WW2! The Scarlet and the Black about him! https://t.co/GAoIVPHtl7 https://t.co/VHzVbpmNg9 pic.twitter.com/nvVwRuVgtB
— Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) October 30, 2020
Previously: Ireland’s Oskar Schindler
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What a man. And never even heard of him.
And don’t forget his helper, Delia Murphy, the famous singer from the Claremorris area:
Delia Murphy Kiernan (16 February 1902 – 11 February 1971) was a singer and collector of traditional songs. She was one of those who assisted Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (the “Vatican pimpernel”) in hiding Jews and escaped allied soldiers from the Nazis.
Gregory Peck played the Monsignor and Christopher Plummer the gestapo chief Colonel Kappler in The Scarlet and the Black movie, 1983….
Trailer
https://youtu.be/NgRxWrlMCOA
Oops, that link is in the tweet already…