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However, Stein was not safe in the Netherlands — the Dutch Bishops ' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on July 20, 1942, condemning Nazi racism.

In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts, who had previously been spared.

Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they are presumed to have been gassed on August 9, 1942 when Edith was 50.