Date | 1983, 13 I |
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Value | 80 (Pfg) |
Catalog no. | Mi 1162 Sc 1385 SG 2012 Y&T 994 |
Topic | Concentration Camps |
Occasion | 40th death anniversary of Edith Stein. |
Description | Inscription EDITH STEIN †1942 AUSCHWITZ
Edith Stein or Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was born in Breslau (Wrocław) , October 12, 1891. She was a Roman Catholic Jewish-German philosopher. She was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau, presumablyon August 9, 1942. She was canonized in 1998. |