Edith Stein’s conversion to Catholicism could not protect her from the Holocaust

Evidence

Another person caught in the Low Countries when war broke out was Husserl’s former assistant, Edith Stein. Having completed her thesis on empathy, converted to Christianity, taken orders as a Carmelite nun, and become Sister Teresa Benedicta, she had moved in 1938 from a community in Cologne to one in Echt in the Netherlands, which at the time appeared to be safer. Her sister Rosa went with her. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Edith Stein’s empathy thesis connects to the reader’s prior Deep Listening material on empathy phenomenology; also echoes the broader theme of phenomenology’s human stakes.
• QUESTION: Stein’s thesis on empathy is mentioned in passing — worth chasing down how her phenomenology of empathy related to her later life and death.