Edith Stein - The Writings of Edith Stein

Carmelite nun, philosopher, and spiritual writer, born in Wroc?aw, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, she later renounced her faith (1904). She studied at Göttingen, then joined the philosophy faculty at Freiburg (1916). She converted to Roman Catholicism (1922), and entered the Carmelite Convent at Cologne (1934), where she took her new name. Under threat of Nazi anti-Semitism, she escaped to The Netherlands, but the Gestapo sent her to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was executed. The Edith Stein Guild for converts was founded in the USA (1955). She is regarded as a modern martyr, and was beatified in 1998.

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Martyr
Born	October 12, 1891 in Breslau, then part of Germany
Died	August 9, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp, Nazi-occupied Poland
Venerated in	Roman Catholicism
Beatified	May 1, 1987, Cologne, Germany by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	October 11, 1998 by Pope John Paul II
Feast	August 9
Attributes	Yellow Star of David
Patronage	Europe; martyrs
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Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934.

However, she was not safe in The Netherlands—the Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism.

Today, there is a school named in tribute to Edith Stein in Darmstadt, Germany , as well as one in Hengelo, The Netherlands . The position of the Catholic Church in this matter is that Edith Stein also died because of the Dutch hierarchy's public condemnation of Nazi racism in 1942—in other words, that she died to uphold the moral position of the Church, and is thus a martyr.

The Writings of Edith Stein

Life in a Jewish Family: Her Unfinished Autobiographical Account, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1986 On the Problem of Empathy, Translated by Waltraut Stein 1989 Essays on Woman, translated by Freda Mary Oben, 1996 The Hidden Life, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1993 The Science of the Cross, Translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1998 Knowledge and Faith Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt to an Ascent to the Meaning of Being Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942