26 September 2016

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Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz after refusing to abandon her Jewish pupils in Budapest, is the subject of this week’s Post. Born in 1897 in Dunscore in Scotland, she moved to Budapest in the early 1930s and refused to come back to Britain, writing: ‘If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?’