Photographer. A pioneer of the high fashion magazine industry, she is remembered for her many years with "The Ambassador", but possibly more-so for an iconic image of Sir Winston Churchill. Born Elsbeth Ruth Goldstein to a family of Jewish intellectuals, she received a good education and worked in Paris as a secretary before returning home in 1931 to marry her childhood sweetheart, Hans Peter Juda. In trouble with the Nazis from the early days of the regime, the couple fled to London in 1933 where they went to work for the Dutch periodical "International Textiles", precursor to "The Ambassador". Fluent in English, Elsbeth served as Hans' interpreter and began studying photography with Lucia Moholy. She paid her dues, working in the darkroom and gradually earning her place behind the camera, then during world War II served in a hospital as a fire watch while documenting the injuries of wounded Soldiers. After the conflict she continued her fashion work, not only at "The Ambassador" but for such other top drawer magazines as "Harper's Bazaar", contributing materially to the career of Barbara Goalen (1921-2002), arguably the first 'supermodel'. During the 1950s she branched out into portrait work and on one memorable (or forgettable) occasion was hired to depict painter Graham Sutherland as he created an 80th birthday image of Sir Winston Churchill. The sessions were ill-starred and Lady Churchill burned the portrait, but Elsbeth had captured Sir Winston to perfection. She continued her fashion projects, took publicity photos for Sadler's Wells Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, and Benjamin Britten's Adelburgh Festival, and in the 1970s created 'British Fortnights' campaigns for the American department stores Neiman Marcus and Lord and Taylor. The subject of several exhibitions, she took-up painting after her husband's 1975 death, donated most of her materials to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in later years supervised publication of her works. At her demise from the effects of far advanced age, her photo of Sir Winston was in London's National Portrait Gallery while her archives were housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and at the British Library.