Vernissage: 10.07.2025, 7 pm
Exhibition: 10 - 17 July 2025,
St. Johannis Youth Church, Chemnitz
Opening hours: Thurs, Fri and Mon - Wed 2-6 pm and by appointment
The exhibition tells the story of Edith Stein's life - a woman who courageously stood up to opposition and always searched for truth, justice and meaning.
Born into a Jewish family in Breslau in 1891, she studied psychology and philosophy, campaigned for women's rights and worked as a Red Cross volunteer in the First World War. As a brilliant thinker, she was denied a professorship - as a woman and as a Jew. During her studies, she campaigned for women's suffrage. During the First World War, she volunteered for medical service. She later converted to Christianity, entered a convent and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. she was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. pope John Paul II canonised her in 1998 and named her co-patroness of Europe a year later.
In his motu proprio on her appointment, the Pope emphasised his hope that Edith Stein's life testimony would contribute to "men and women learning to understand and appreciate each other, beyond all ethnic, cultural and religious differences - in order to form a truly fraternal society." It is precisely this spirit that the exhibition aims to express.
