Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Holocaust heroine Jane Haining honoured by Prime Minister - BBC News


Holocaust heroine Jane Haining honoured by PM

Jane Haining refused to leave the children in her care
The family of a Church of Scotland missionary who died in the Nazi gas chambers has received a posthumous award in her honour at Downing Street.

Dumfriesshire-born Jane Haining worked at a Jewish orphanage in Hungary.

She refused to abandon the children in her care after the invasion by German forces in 1944 and was sent to Auschwitz, where she met her death.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8556207.stm


A total of 28 people received the new British Heroes of the Holocaust award from the prime minister.