Meet Edith Stein : From Cloister to Concentration Camp: A Carmelite Nun Confronts the Nazis
by Cynthia Cavnar, Cindy Cavnar
Category: Biography & Autobiography

This brief biography of Edith Stein introduces readers to one of the most brilliant and controversial saints of the twentieth century. Born a German Jew, Stein converted to the Catholic faith as a young woman. Having earned a doctorate summa cum laude, she became a respected philosopher, scholar, and university lecturer - at a time when women were rarely allowed to fill those rules, and it was dangerous for a public figure to have Jewish parentage. After Stein entered the Carmelite order, she continued to write, but her life was cut short by the Nazis, who showed a special hatred for Catholic converts from Judaism. She died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz - and earned there a place among the heroic martyrs of our time.