Scottish “Holocaust heroine” who saved Jewish girls lauded in book
London Thomson Reuters Foundation A Scottish “Holocaust heroine” and quiet champion of educating girls helped save many Jews in Hungary before dying herself in a Nazi concentration camp, according to a book out on Wednesday. Jane Haining, who cared for hundreds of Jewish girls at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest during World War II, […]
Hungary honours Scottish missionary who died at Auschwitz
BosNewsLife Jane Haining Hungary is hosting an exhibition honoring a Church of Scotland missionary killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau for protecting Jewish children in Budapest. Jane Haining was the only Scottish woman known to have died in the Nazi-run extermination camp in occupied Poland. The exhibition ‘Common Fate’ is being held for the first time at Budapest’s […]
Scottish Holocaust heroine’s life to be celebrated in new heritage centre
Jane Haining A new heritage centre celebrating the life of Holocaust heroine Jane Haining will be opened in a Scottish church, the Church of Scotland has announced. Haining’s extraordinary story – in which she gave her life at the age of 47 to help protect Jewish schoolgirls during World War II – will be told […]
Saints of Past Ages: New light shed on martyred Scottish Holocaust heroine Jane Haining
CHARLES GARDNER, in a story first published by ASSIST News Service, writes about how new discoveries of a will and photographs have provided fresh insight into the life of martyred Scottish Christian Jane Haining…