Jane Haining: a life of love and courage
A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she was a boarding school matron in charge of around 50 orphan girls. The school had 400 pupils, most of them Jewish. Jane was back in the UK on holiday w...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Birlinn Ltd
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hungary
/ Mission to women
/ Jews
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| IxTheo Classification: | KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Hungary ; Budapest
B Scotland B Missions B History B Women missionaries B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) B Missionaries B Haining, Jane B Haining, Jane (1897-1944) B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Biography B Biography B Women missionaries (Scotland) Biography B Missions (Hungary) (Budapest) History 20th century B Missionaries (Scotland) Biography |
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| Summary: | A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she was a boarding school matron in charge of around 50 orphan girls. The school had 400 pupils, most of them Jewish. Jane was back in the UK on holiday when war broke out in 1939, but she immediately went back to Hungary to do all she could to protect the children at the school. She refused to leave in 1940, and again ignored orders to flee the country in March 1944 when Hungary was invaded by the Nazis. She remained with her pupils, writing 'if these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness'." Her brave persistence led to her arrest in by the Gestapo in April 1944, for "offences" that included spying, working with Jews and listening to the BBC. She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz just a few months later, at the age of 47. Her courage and self-sacrifice, her choice to stay and to protect the children in her care, has made her an inspiration to many |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index |
| ISBN: | 1780275757 |