Carmelite nun Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was executed in 1942 for this.
Carmelite nun Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, whose given name was Edith Stein, was executed by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1942 for her Jewish heritage. A Roman Catholic convert from Judaism, Stein was an educator, nun, philosopher and spiritual writer and is generally regarded as a modern saint and martyr. Born in Germany on October 12, 1891, she joined the Carmelites in 1934 and wrote a number of important philosophical and spiritual works, including Finite and Eternal Being. With Hitler?s 1942 order for the arrest of all non-Aryan Catholics, Stein was seized and shipped to the concentration camp at Auschwitz where she died in the gas chamber in August with her sister Rosa.
