Jane Haining
British Righteous Among the Nations (1897-1944) · United Kingdom · On the map · Died at 47
Jane Mathison Haining was a Scottish missionary for the Church of Scotland in Budapest, Hungary, who was recognised in 1997 by Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked her life to help Jews during the Holocaust.
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Haining (seated, second right) at Dumfries Academy
The Scottish Mission, Vörösmarty utca 51, Budapest, 2017
Concentration camps and ghettos in occupied Europe (2007 borders); Auschwitz is circled in red.
Female prisoners in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, c. May 1944
Memorial in Dunscore, Haining's home villageAwards
About this person
Country
United Kingdom
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1944 · aged 47
