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Saint Tersesa Benidicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Virgin and Martyr Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family. She was German. Teresa died in Auschwitz on 1942 at the age of fifty-one. She was canonized in October 11th, 1998. Her feast day is August 9th.

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Edith was born into an observant Jewish family. She was the youngest of eleven children. She was born on Yum Kippur, the holiest day of the Hebrew Calendar, which made her her mother's favourite. She was a very bright child who enjoyed learning. She greatly admired her mother's religious faith although she did become an atheist during her teenage years. Her father died when she was young and as a result her mother sent her to study at the University Of Breslau.

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She was born in the German empire which is now Poland. She was born into a Jewish family but converted to Catholicism and was baptized on the 1st of January 1922

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the time edith spent in the concentration camp.

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the time edith spent in the concentration camp.

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On 9 August 70 years ago Edith Stein, the Jew turned Carmelite sister was being killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1933 she wrote to the Pope about the Jewish persecution
The philosopher Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein at the time) took her last breath in Auschwitz concentration camp seventy years ago. Born to a Jewish family. In 1939 she was in Carmel of Echt in the Netherlands and was captured in 1942 during the Nazi searches which were acrried out after a letter was sent denouncing the deportations. The letter had been signed by Dutch Catholic bishops and read out in all churches. Up until then, the Nazis had spared baptised Jews: about three hundred clerics of Jewish origin were captured.

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she was with her sister Rosa, who was also a convert, Edith stein was seized by the gestapo and was shipped to the concentration camp, Auschwit. Survivors of death camp testified that she helped all other sufferers with great compassion. Thats when she was sent off to a gas chamber where she died with her sister.

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In 1915, moved by the tragedies of World War 1, she took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worked in an infectious diseases hospital. After completing her doctoral thesis from the University of Gottingen in 1916, she obtained an assistantship at the University Of Freiberg.