Motion: Hungary's Annual March of the Living Dedicated to the Scot, Jane Haining

Hungary's Annual March of the Living Dedicated to the Scot, Jane Haining

Lodged by Jackson Carlaw Standard Motion 27 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament acknowledges that the 2019 Annual March of the Living, Hungary's annual Holocaust Memorial Day, was held in in Budapest on 14 April and was dedicated to the Scottish missionary, Jane Haining, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for protecting Jewish children during the Second World War; remembers the courage and bravery of Jane, who first ignored warnings to return to Scotland in 1940, and then again in 1944 after Hungary was invaded; recalls that she famously wrote that she would not leave the children in her care during days of darkness; acknowledges that Jane was arrested in March 1944 and was subsequently murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, aged just 47; recognises that she is the only Scot to be honoured as "righteous among the nations" at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem, which is a title bestowed on non-Jewish people who risked their own lives to protect Jews during the Second World War, and that her name is rightly inscribed on the walls of honour at the Garden of the Righteous, and agrees that the decision to dedicate the 2019 annual march to her memory was a fitting tribute to the personal self-sacrifice that Jane made to protect Jewish children.

Supporters (27)