A Scottish woman who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp has been honoured posthumously for risking her life to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary who was originally from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, worked as matron of the girls' home at the Scottish mission School in Budapest in Hungary.
Most of the pupils were Jewish orphans, and despite being ordered to return to Scotland, she refused to leave the girls she was looking after and was eventually arrested by the Gestapo.
She was sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, where she was reported to have died "in hospital" on July 15 1944. It is thought that she may have died in the gas chambers.
It is believed that there were a total of ten Scots killed in the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.
Jane Haining was in 1997 honoured as one of the Righteous among Nations by the Yad Vashem holocaust education, research and commemoration organisation in Israel. Her name is inscribed near to that of Oskar Schindler, the industrialist credited with saving almost 1200 Jews.
In Scotland Jane Haining is commemorated by a stained glass window in Queen's Park church in Glasgow, where she once worshipped, and there is a plaque at the church in Dunscore.
The new Hero of the Holocaust awards, which recognise British people who risked their lives to help Jews during World War Two, were announced by the Prime Minister in 2009 following a visit to Auschwitz following a campaign by the Holocaust Education Trust.
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "We are delighted that our initiative received widespread support and that the British Government has given these brave people the recognition they have long deserved.
"They provide a template of courage for today’s young people – and clearly highlight the difference that can be made by standing up against injustice, hatred and prejudice.
"Many of these extraordinary British men and women risked their lives and never spoke about afterwards. They are true unsung heroes."
Also among those being recognised posthumously are Major Frank Foley who saved up to 10,000 people by issuing false visas to Jews while working as a spy in the British embassy in Berlin.
Of those being honoured by the government, only two remain alive. Sir Nicholas Winton was responsible for over 600 mostly Jewish children escaping to the UK from German-occupied Czechislovakia, while Denis Avey helped a German Jewish inmate survive Auschwitz-Birkenau.
