On Wednesday 23 January, RTE’s Nationwide programme had a special feature on the Jewish community in Dublin. It can be watched, anytime over the next sixteen days, on the RTE Player here.
It includes:
– Elaine Brown and her daughter Melaine taking Mary Kennedy on a tour of Clanbrassil Street and helping to identify Jewish shops from a 1965 RTE documentary.
J. Goldwater shop on Clanbrassil Street. (RTE, documentary 1965)
– A feature on the originally Jewish Bretzel Bakery (estd. 1870) in Portobello which has had its Kosher status re-established since William Despard and Cormac Keenan took over in 2000. Also includes interview with Cantor Shulman whose job is to inspect the bakery and make sure it is following the Kosher rules.
Walworth Road Synagogue pictured in 1965. Now the Irish Jewish Museum (RTE documentary)
– Detailed story of Ettie Steinberg, the only Irish born victim of the Holocaust. She grew up on Raymond Terrace off the South Circular Road and was educated in St. Catherine’s School on Donore Avenue. Ettie was murdered with her German husband in Auschwitz. Includes interviews with Dubliner and Irish-Jewish genealogist Stuart Rosenblatt and Yvonne Altman O’Connor of the Irish Jewish Museum
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
There is a picture in the Nationwide report of children in a camp accompanied by a Nun. Does anybody know the history of this.
Thanks for remembering the Jewish People.
[…] – RTE Nationwide special on Dublin Jewish community (January 2013) […]
Ettie Steinberg may be one case for whom solid documentation exists, but I’m sure she wasn’t the only Irish Jew who was swept up in the holocaust.