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Jane Haining
- A Life of Love and Courage
Engelsk Paperback
Jane Haining
- A Life of Love and Courage
Engelsk Paperback

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''Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account'' - Nicole Gemine, Press and JournalJane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines.A farmer’s daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she was a boarding school matron in charge of around 50 orphan girls. The school had 400 pupils, most of them Jewish. 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 children at the school. She refused to leave in 1940, and again ignored orders to flee the country in March 1944 when Hungary was invaded by the Nazis. She remained with her pupils, writing ''if these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness''.Her brave persistence led to her arrest in by the Gestapo in April 1944, for "offences" that included spying, working with Jews and listening to the BBC. She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz just a few months later, at the age of 47. Her courage and self-sacrifice, her choice to stay and to protect the children in her care, have made her an inspiration to many.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781780276663
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1780276664
Udg. Dato:
6 jan 2022
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Birlinn General
Oplagsdato:
6 jan 2022
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