17 Facts About Elisabeth Maxwell

Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Maxwell was a French-born researcher of the Holocaust who established the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 1987.

Elisabeth Maxwell was married to publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell from 1945 until his death in 1991 when the family came under scrutiny for his business dealings, especially his responsibility for the Mirror Group pension scandal.

Elisabeth Maxwell's parents sent her to England at age nine to attend the convent of Our Lady of Compassion at Acocks Green in Birmingham.

Elisabeth Maxwell then worked as his secretary and assistant in London as he established his publishing empire.

All of Elisabeth Maxwell's children were delivered by her sister Yvonne, a gynaecologist, in Maisons-Laffitte, France.

Elisabeth Maxwell then enrolled at Oxford in 1970 and earned a BA degree in modern languages at St Hugh's College in 1974.

Elisabeth Maxwell researched her husband's Jewish relatives who perished under Nazi rule, and discovered they amounted in total to over 300 of his immediate and extended family.

In 1988, Elisabeth Maxwell organized a conference in both Oxford and London, titled "Remembering for the Future".

Elisabeth Maxwell authored a book on antisemitism titled Silence or Speaking Out, published in 1990 by Southampton University.

Elisabeth Maxwell was a wonderful person, kind and supportive, quite contrary to her husband, whom she loved despite everything.

Elisabeth Maxwell returned to Britain after the Duke of Westminster "let her a four-bedroomed townhouse at a peppercorn rent".

Elisabeth Maxwell's autobiography, entitled A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Elisabeth Maxwell, was published in November 1994.

Elisabeth Maxwell was an editor for the book Remembering for the Future: the Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, a comprehensive work including the contributions of nearly 200 scholars, published in 2001.

Elisabeth Maxwell was on the executive committee of the International Council of Christians and Jews and founded the International Conference on the Holocaust.

Elisabeth Maxwell was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Woolf Institute at Cambridge for her work to improve relations between Christians and Jews.

Elisabeth Maxwell was further recognized with an Honorary Fellowship at Tel Aviv University, and received the Eternal Flame Award of the Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia.

In later life, Elisabeth Maxwell spent most of her time in Dordogne, France, with her sister Yvonne Meynard Vittoz LaForce Elisabeth Maxwell died in Dordogne on 7 August 2013 at the age of 92.