Scottish missionary who died at Auschwitz to be honoured in Hungary
March of the Living will be dedicated to Jane Haining, who protected Jewish children in Budapest
A Scottish missionary who died at Auschwitz after refusing to abandon Jewish children in her care in Budapest will be honoured at Hungary’s torchlit March of the Living, as research reveals she saved many other Jews from certain death by helping them emigrate to Britain.
Jane Haining, who grew up in rural Dumfriesshire, is the only Scot to be honoured as “righteous among the nations” – the term used for non-Jews who risked their lives to protect Jews from extermination – by the
