A TEACHER has been hired to tell pupils the story of a Scottish woman who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish girls in her care.
Jane Haining, from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, was a Christian matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Hungary, in the 1930s where more than 400 girls of mostly Jewish background were studying.
When war broke out, despite knowing her life was in danger, she refused to leave their side and is reported to have said: “If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?”
