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Jane Haining

13/07/2021 by Nicola Mills

At General Synod 2021 Synod approved the inclusion of Jane Haining in the SEC Calendar. This account of her life is taken from the Synod papers:

Jane Haining was born in the Borders, lived in Glasgow and felt called as a Church of Scotland Missionary in Budapest, Hungary. Her mission work was caring for Jewish children. At the outbreak of World War II, she was asked to return to Scotland and refused. She was subsequently arrested and transported to Auschwitz having refused to abandon the children in her charge. She is the only Scot known to have died in Auschwitz … On account of her refusal to abandon those for whom she had care, and her death as a result, she is recognised as Righteous among the Nations (an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis). She is also an outstanding example of Christian witness in a life lived for others – and in this case, those of other faiths – and the willingness to face death as a result.

Filed Under: Around the Congregation, Magazine, Trinity 2021

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