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1891 – 1942Edith Stein (1891-1942)Died 9 August 1942, aged 50Edith Stein was a German philosopher, a student of Edmund Husserl, who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun. She was arrested in the Netherlands and murdered at Auschwitz. Pope John Paul II canonised her in 1998 as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.