Edith Stein, Echt and the Truth

This documentary tells the story of Edith Stein (1891-1942), a German philosopher of Jewish decent whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1998. Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt, South Holland. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz. Director Frederieke Jochems worked for 9 years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonization. Featuring Holocaust survivor Max Hamburger, Carmelite nun Maria Amate Neyer, Stein’s American niece Susanne Batzdorff, feminist theologian Thalia Gur-Klein, American philosophy professor Marianne Sawicki, secretary of the Edith Stein committee Jenny Stassen-Muyrers, Rabbi Tzvi Marx, assistant bishop Everard de Jong and Catholic theologian Marcel Poorthuis.