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The will of the only Scot to have been honoured by Yad Vashem as "righteous among the nations" has been found in a church - more than 70 years after her death in Auschwitz.

Jane Haining was sent to the camp after refusing to abandon a group of Jewish girls in her care at a missionary school in Budapest.

The hand-written will, dated July 1942, was found in a box in the archives of the Church of Scotland's World Mission Council in Edinburgh, alongside 70 photographs of her and the girls.

Her belongings will now be handed to the National Library of Scotland.

According to the Yad Vashem website, in Miss Haining's last message to friends, she wrote: "There is not much to report here on the way to heaven."

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