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Posted on 11/30/2014 9:06:41 AM PST by the scotsman
'Jane Haining was a quiet farmer's daughter from the south of Scotland who ended her life as a slave labourer in the most notorious extermination camp the world has ever known.
She is the only Scot to be officially honoured for giving her life for Jews in the Holocaust.
But her life began a long way from the barbed wire fences of Auschwitz - among the rolling hills of rural Dumfriesshire.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Today is St Andrew’s Day in Scotland.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been to Yad Vashem, but of course, don’t know the stories of all the “righteous Gentiles”; I appreciate knowing about this woman.
It can’t happen here. .
Heartbreaking story.
“She could not grasp the evil in which she was functioning,” says Annette Lantos, former pupil.
I think this does her a disservice. She used the phrase “time of darkness” in her decision to stay. People were bailing out left and right. She knew what was what.
What a moving story.
Some Jewish groups have recommended that non-Jews who actually perished while assisting Jews in WWII should be honored separately as “Heroic Gentiles”.
Interesting. Thanks for posting this.
Good story...definitely among the righteous!
bfl
My Scottish ancestors hailed from that very county. I've sworn to get there one day, to step foot on that ancient ground.
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