Edith Stein And Companions

On one day in 1942, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and hundreds of other Catholic Jews were arrested in Holland by the Nazis. 113 of them died at Auschwitz and other concentration camps, killed in retaliation for the anti-Nazi pastoral letter written by Dutch Catholic bishops. While Edith Stein is the most famous, all of them deserve the title of martyr. They were killed not only because they were Jews but also because of the faith of the Church that compelled the Dutch bishops to protest the Nazi regime. Extensively researched, these martyrs’ biographies include many remarkable conversion stories like Edith Stein, the German philosopher who became a Catholic in 1922 and later a Carmelite nun.