Jane Haining

A “very moving biography” of a courageous woman who gave her life in order to stay with her orphaned students during the Nazi invasion of Hungary ( Scotsman ). A farmer’s daughter from Scotland, Jane Haining went to work at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she was a boarding school matron in charge of around fifty orphan girls. 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 fo