 After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain.Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (which merged with Pittsburgh in 1907), to upper-middle-class Jewish parents, Daniel Stein and Amelia (née Keyser) Stein.Her father was a wealthy businessman with real estate holdings.