Glasgow - A Scottish girls' home matron who died in a Nazi death camp for helping Jewish children during the Holocaust was yesterday honoured by Israel. Jane Haining,
who died aged 47 in Auschwitz in 1944, was awarded a medal and a place among the "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Mr Moshe Raviv.
Miss Haining's half-sister, Mrs Agnes O'Brien (75), from Derry, received the award from the ambassador at a ceremony in Glasgow. Amid tight security, Mr Raviv told the audience, which included some Holocaust survivors, that Miss Haining was the only Scot to receive such an award and would be honoured at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.