The name of a Scot who died in the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish children in her care has been added to a special memorial wall at Auschwitz.

Jane Haining is recognised in a renewed section of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum's main exhibition - devoted to hundreds of prisoners for whom no registration photographs were taken.

The new name plaques adorn the wall of a long corridor and are displayed next to many images of prisoners dressed in striped shirts with shaved heads.

Haining's death certificate said she died in hospital on 17 July 1944, aged 47, but it is widely accepted she died in a gas chamber and her remains are on the Auschwitz site.

Born and raised in the village of Dunscore in the south of Scotland, Haining was the matron at a Church of Scotland school in Budapest from 1932 to 1944.

The Scottish Mission School had around 400 day and boarder pupils aged from six to 16 years old, a mixture of Jewish and Christian girls.

The Church of Scotland said she helped keep the children safe for more than four years after the war broke out in 1939.

Despite numerous offers to return home she stayed on, saying: "If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness?"

She was arrested by German officers in April 1944 and taken to Auschwitz the following month.

A spokesman for Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum said: "The corridor has two important purposes.

"It restores individual names and identities to people who were imprisoned and killed in Auschwitz, but it also helps visitors understand the complexity of the prisoner population."

Members of Haining's family - Kevin O'Brien, Liz Harrigan and Patricia Audis - visited the exhibition this week during a study tour to Auschwitz, organised by the Renfrewshire branch of the Unison trade union.

Her neice, Deirdre MacDowell, said: "To see Jane's name on a permanent memorial wall makes one ask how is it that she came to be in Auschwitz?

"And that's the beginning of her story and it can be told to all who ask about her.

"Her story is humbling, full of compassion and kindness and makes us think about how we live our own lives - it is a legacy for us all."

A Church of Scotland spokesman said it was "very moving" to see her name added to the corridor wall to keep her memory alive for "generations to come".

"It is more important than ever that people learn the lessons of history and do not make the mistakes of the past," he said.