Elisabeth Maxwell

Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Maxwell was a French-born researcher of the Holocaust who established the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 1987. She was married to publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell from 1945 until his death in 1991, and was the mother of socialite and child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 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.