Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary, has been added to a memorial wall at Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum's main exhibition. She was imprisoned and died at Auschwitz in 1944 after helping keep children safe during World War II. The museum has dedicated a section of the corridor to hundreds of prisoners whose registration photographs were not taken, including Haining. Her inclusion on the wall is seen as a way to restore individual names and identities to those who were persecuted, and to honor her legacy as a courageous woman who risked her life to save others.
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Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary, has been added to a memorial wall at Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum. She was arrested in 1944 while helping keep children safe in Budapest before being transported to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland on May 14, 1944. Haining died there six months later on July 17, 1944, at the age of 47, shortly before the camp was liberated in 1945. The memorial wall is dedicated to prisoners for whom no registration photographs were taken and aims to show the diversity and scale of persecution during that time. Haining's name was added to this section as part of a visit by her family, including niece Deirdre MacDowell, who attended a study tour organized by the Unison trade union.
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Jane Haining is recognised in a section devoted to hundreds of prisoners for whom no registration photographs were taken.
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She helped keep children safe until she was arrested in 1944 and was jailed in Budapest before being transported along with Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland on May 14 1944.
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She died there on July 17, 1944, aged 47, around six months before the camp was liberated in 1945.
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Her name has now been added to a section of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum’s main exhibition.
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A spokesman for Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum said: “The corridor has two important purposes.
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It restores individual names and identities to people who were imprisoned and killed in Auschwitz, but it also helps visitors understand the complexity of the prisoner population.
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“Prisoners came from many different countries, communities, backgrounds and groups.
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“By presenting hundreds of individual names together, the exhibition shows both the scale of persecution and the diversity of the people who experienced the camp.
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Members of Miss Haining’s family welcomed her inclusion on the wall.
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Deirdre MacDowell, Miss Haining’s niece, said: “To see Jane’s name on a permanent memorial wall makes one ask how is it that she came to be in Auschwitz?
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“And that’s the beginning of her story and it can be told to all who ask about her.
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“Her story is humbling, full of compassion and kindness, and makes us think about how we live our own lives – it is a legacy for us all.”
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Other relatives of Miss Haining – her nephew Kevin O’Brien and nieces Liz Harrigan and Patricia Audis – visited the exhibition this week during a study tour to Auschwitz which was organised by the Renfrewshire branch of the Unison trade union.
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On Thursday, they took part in a memorial service at Auschwitz Birkenau to commemorate Miss Haining’s sacrifice outside block nine where she was held prisoner before her death.
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A Church of Scotland spokesman said: “It is very moving to see that Jane Haining’s name has been added to the corridor wall at Auschwitz and will help keep her memory alive for generations to come.
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“It is more important than ever that people learn the lessons of history and do not make the mistakes of the past.
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“Jane was simultaneously an ordinary and extraordinary woman, and her story is one of courage, heroism, decency and personal sacrifice, reminding us that when we feel powerless, there is always something that we can do.
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Last November, a brass Stolperstein, “stumbling block”, in memory of Miss Haining was installed outside the former St Stephen’s Church building in Edinburgh.
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Miss Haining is the only Scot to be recognised as “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, for taking great risks to save Jews.
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