Edith Stein

The project focused on the figure of Edith Stein, revealing one of the invisible sides of Chemnitz: the favourite place for her frequent visits. Edith, co-patroness of Europe, born in Breslau in 1891, was an unusual woman - German and Jewish, psychologist, teacher and doctor of philosophy, finally a Carmelite nun, St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who died in Auschwitz in 1942. The project included an exhibition presenting Edith Stein and a concert of Jewish music in an atmosphere full of joy and playfulness.