Jane Haining
A Life of Love and Courage
'A biography as calm, meticulous and movingly humane as Jane Haining herself. Mary Miller has reclaimed the life of a woman who embodied the best of Scotland and the finest values of her faith - and done her proud' - Sally MagnussonJane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines.A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane was a Church of Scotland missionary, and went to the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she worked as 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, b…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85790-207-8
- EAN: 9780857902078
- Produktnummer: 30866828
- Verlag: Birlinn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'802 KB
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Mary Miller has worked in fundraising and charity work throughout the world. Named Evening Times 'International Scotswoman of the Year' in 2009, her lifelong interest in the care of children in difficult situations drew her to explore Jane Haining's devotion to the Jewish girls in her care. She lives in Glasgow.
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