Elisabeth Maxwell

Elisabeth Maxwell
Born
Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Meynard

(1921-04-11)11 April 1921
La Grive, France
Died7 August 2013(2013-08-07) (aged 92)
Dordogne, France
NationalityFrench
British
EducationSt Hugh's College, Oxford, 1981
Occupation(s)Holocaust researcher, proponent of interfaith dialogue
Spouse
(m. 1945; died 1991)
Children9, including Christine, Isabel, Ian, Kevin and Ghislaine

Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Maxwell (née Meynard; 11 April 1921 – 7 August 2013) was a French-born researcher of the Holocaust who established the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 1987.[1] She 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.[2][3] Later in life, she was recognized for her work as a proponent of Interfaith dialogue and received several awards including an honorary fellowship from the Woolf Institute at Cambridge.[4] She was the mother of the convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.

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  2. ^ Greenslade, Roy (3 November 2011). "Pension plunderer Robert Maxwell remembered 20 years after his death". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  3. ^ Cohen, Roger (20 December 1991). "Maxwell's Empire: How It Grew, How It Fell – A Special Report.; Charming the Big Bankers Out of Billions". The New York Times. Vol. 141, no. 48820. pp. A1, D3. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
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