Auschwitz MemorialJune 1897 | A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A Church of Scotland missionary.
During the Second World War she ran a school for girls that the Church of Scotland set up and operated in Budapest. She was accused of supporting the Allied Forces and Jewish people, especially the Jewish students of the school. Arrested by Germans and transported to Auschwitz on 14 May 1944 (camp no. 79467).
She perished in Birkenau on 17 July 1944.
"On Auschwitz" (31): Christian clergy at Auschwitz by On Auschwitz
The Germans incarcerated at least 464 priests, seminarians & monks as well as 35 nuns in #Auschwitz. Teresa Wontor Cichy, from the Museum’s Research Center talks about the fate of Christian clergy and about religious life in the camp. See also our online course: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_duchowienstwo/
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