The heroism of a Dumfriesshire farmer’s daughter is to be commemorated with a “stumbling stone” on the pavement outside St Stephen’s Church in Edinburgh.
It is the latest tribute recognising the selflessness during WWII of Scotland’s most prominent holocaust victim, Church of Scotland school matron Jane Haining, who was born in Dunscore in 1897.
In 1944 she died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland – where she was given the number 79467 – after refusing to abandon Jewish girls in her care at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest.
