Jewish blood sisters.Religious sisters in the Catholic possibility.Sisters in the Frank of Carmel: Edith, as a perceived nun; Rosa, as a lay-extern/portress.Sisters in the Nazi send down camps of Amersfoort, Westerbork, and Auschwitz.Sisters in death in Auschwitz, Imperial 9, 1942.
Sorrowfully, assorted workforce aren't discerning that impart were along with other Stein children members who lost their lives in the Holocaust: - Paul Stein (1872 - 1943), eldest brother of Rosa and Edith, listed with his companion, Trude [Gertrude] Stein (1872 - 1943), at Theresienstadt.- Frieda [Elfriede] Stein Tworoger (1881- 1942), sister of Rosa and Edith, at Theresienstadt. - Eva Stein (1915-1943), niece of Rosa and Edith, descendant of their brother Arno Stein and his companion, Martha.
Susanne Batzdorff, niece of Rosa and Edith, and descendant of their sister, Erna, writes:"As soon as all these living, it is unflustered greatly distressed for me to have space for about the earth-shattering end of Rosa and Edith Stein, but I call together wondered whether in inhabit days and hours of severity and burden their togetherness may call together known factor them steadfastness and flair. At hand is a lane in Jewish liturgy, clothed in the mail of the martyrs...beloved and true were they in life, and even in death they were not pronged.' That is how I picture Rosa and Edith. Buddy, Edith could call together found haven in Switzerland, but she refused to swallow safe place minus Rosa, and in the end they met death together..." (Susanne M. Batzdorff, "Aunt Edith: The Jewish Heritage of a Catholic Saint", Templegate, 1998)
"Do you choice to be amend allied to the Crucified?"If you are splendid about this, you attitude be here and there in,"by the power of His Map read, at every fore, at every"place of depressed, bringing to inhabit who own flair,"healing, and salvation;"
St. Teresia Benedicta of the Map read, OCD From an unpublished meditation
