Edith

Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle was an animated television special created by Lily Tomlin. It was produced by Klasky Csupo. It is not to be confused with a sketch on a late 60's comedy show, Hee Haw or kids show The Electric Company.

Today, Edith is tired of being the favorite spectator of her parents, famous but somewhat outdated singers. She wants to sing too. But just as she decides to take the plunge, familiar demons come to revive her and remind her that there is only one singer in the family. And that she was born after her...

Eivind’s, who is eight years old, grandma has recently passed and he is struggling with her loss. At the retirement home he visits for a school concert, he meets an elderly resident Edith. Edith has an exciting secret Eivind learns about and they become best friends.

Home movie footage of the then-director Edith Kramer and others in the San Francisco offices of Canyon Cinema

Edith Stein (1891-1942) had been born Jewish in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). She studied philosophy in her native town before joining Göttingen University. In Freiburg, she worked with Professor Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. At the age of thirty, she converted to Catholicism and later entered the Carmel of Echt, in the Netherlands. In 1942, she was arrested there and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was gassed. Edith Stein, who had become Sister Theresa of the Cross, was canonized in 1998.