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September 26, 2016

Jane Haining, the Only Scot to Receive Yad Vashem’s “Righteous among the Nations” Designation

She wouldn’t leave her girls.

A teacher at a school for Jewish girls in Budapest run by the Church of Scotland, Jane Haining refused orders from her superiors to leave Hungary when World War II began. Eventually she was sent to Auschwitz, where she died. Some of her last correspondence was recently discovered in church archives, shedding new light on the details of her story:

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