She went on to become Matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, a day and boarding school run by the Church of Scotland for over 300 Christian and Jewish girls, some of whom were orphans. Haining Park, now found at Dandara’s Ashgrove development near Loanhead, Midlothian, was officially unveiled this week by the Hungarian Consul in Scotland, Tibor Csaba Szendrei, who declared it open with a wave of the Hungarian flag.īorn in 1897, in the Scottish village of Dunscore, Jane Haining studied at Dumfries Academy where she became fluent in Hungarian and German and was proclaimed as Dux – the highest achieving pupil in the school. Housebuilder Dandara East Scotland held a small road-naming ceremony today, recognising the courage and sacrifice of Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary and Matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, who died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
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