282:-born British Army Captain Robert Maxwell, while working as an interpreter for the Welcome Committee, which introduced French people to Allied officers; they married on 15 March 1945. She then worked as his secretary and assistant in London as he established his publishing empire. The Maxwells had nine children: Michael, Philip, Ann,
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Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Meynard in La Grive, near
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and founded the International Conference on the Holocaust.
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in July 2000. She was on the Executive Committee of the
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