70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp - Short Documentary

On Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Oświęcim (Auschwitz). The somber commemoration of the liberation of the concentration camp was underway. I recalled my last visit there with my friends from Ireland. Today I found this short documentary by Steven Spielberg with narrative voice of Meryl Streep. It hit me hard and made me sick again same way it was last year while visiting... Yet, there is a ray of hope in the documentary message. Maybe we are not doomed after all, maybe there is a chance for us to become humans and Children of Merciful Loving God again?

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Where God is Absent

It is on August 9th every year since the year of the Lord of 1987, that the Church commemorates one of the most intriguing Saints, she has ever elevated to the glory of altars. "We bow down before the testimony of the life and death of Edith Stein, an outstanding daughter of Israel and at the same time a daughter of the Carmelite Order, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a personality who united within her rich life a dramatic synthesis of our century. It was the synthesis of a history full of deep wounds that are still hurting ... and also the synthesis of the full truth about man. All this came together in a single heart that remained restless and unfulfilled until it finally found rest in God." These were the words of Pope John Paul II when he beatified Edith Stein in Cologne on 1 May 1987.

Who was this woman?