During our January meeting we read and discussed 'The Ultimate Sacrifice' which concludes Part 1 of this lovely book.

It was certainly challenging and from a quiet, gentle and at times amusing content, eventually led us to Edith, her sister Rosa, and other Jews, arriving by train in Auschwitz.

From there in the early hours of Sunday morning on the 9th August 1942 most of them were immediately taken to the gas chambers.

We hope to briefly engage with this important chapter next time and learn something about Edith Stein's experience in Westerbork, a transit camp, from two eyewitness accounts of her final days.

Onto chapter 5 - Jews: Empathy in Prayer. Edith was truly empathic - a person of inner silence who put herself in others' shoes. Meeting and forming, where?

We encounter the living Christ in the Eucharist, the Gospels and silent prayer.