Published in KPBS On Air Magazine February 1994 Edith Stein was born into an observant German Jewish family on Yom Kippur, 1891. On August 9, 1942, she died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. Forty five years later, in August 1987, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (nee Edith Stein) was beatified by Pope John Paul II and proclaimed a martyr. The life Read More →