Born a Jew, Edith Stein converted to Catholicism and became a nun before Hitler assumed power in Germany. She lived as a Catholic, yet she died in 1942 in an Auschwitz gas chamber as Jew number 44074, during the time of the Concordat. Edith Stein, a Carmelite nun was recognized by the Vatican as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, upon her can...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
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University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.