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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dan Barker

Memory of Scottish teacher Jane Haining who died in Auschwitz to be honoured

PA Media

Growing levels of antisemitism, racism, and intolerance show that the story of a Scottish woman who gave her life to protect school girls during the Holocaust is relevant today, says a group which has formed to promote her living legacy.

Jane Haining, a former school teacher from Dumfriesshire, travelled to Budapest, Hungary in 1932 and became the matron at the Scottish Mission School, where more than 400 girls of mostly Jewish background were studying.

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