Exhibition- Righteous Among the Nations- Jane Haining
Jane Mathieson Haining was born on a farm in Scotland in 1897. She was considered highly intelligent from an early age, and at 12, she won a scholarship to the prestigious Dumfries Academy. In 1932, Jane moved to Budapest to lead a class in a Scottish missionary school. After the Nazis took over Austria and Czechoslovakia, many Jews escaped to Hungary, and many Jewish children came to the missionary school Jane worked at to find shelter. In 1940, fear resided all over Europe after the German army successfully conquered numerous countries. Jane was instructed to return home to Scotland because she might not be able to leave later, but she refused. In 1940, Jane’s school was already housing 224 Jewish children. In April 1944, Gestapo officers arrived at Jane’s school and arrested her. While the Gestapo officers took her away, she smiled at her students and told them she would be back soon. Jane was interrogated and transferred between prisons, any attempt by the Church and the Swiss legation to save her failed. In May 1944, Jane was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on July 17th, 1944, she died.
In 1997, the Yad Vasem Institute knowledge Jane Haining as Righteous Among the Nations.
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