What is recorded here
This brass commemorative plaque records: In Edinburgh lived Jane Haining. Born 1897. Arrested 14.5.1944 Budapest. Deported Auschwitz-Birkenau. Murdered 17.7.1944 Recorded plaque organisation: Gunter Demnig.
Jane Haining was a Scottish missionary who worked in Hungary during World War II and was deported to Auschwitz for protecting Jewish children, where she was murdered; she is remembered for her bravery and selflessness in defying Nazi orders.
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