Teixeira's family escaped the
Russian Revolution in 1917, through a rescue mounted by her uncle
Morris Gest, a New York City
impresario. The family settled in Berlin in 1924 so as to be near at hand for the expected overthrow of the
Bolshevik regime. Fifteen years later her family had to flee from the
Nazis. Arriving in England in April, 1939, she found that
refugees like her were only allowed to be domestic servants or factory workers but she was eventually allowed an office job. She was to be penned into various secretarial positions until her retirement in 1975. Photography was a spare time activity taken up seriously at age 47. Three years later she co-founded the Creative Photo Group in London which drew approval from the historians
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim in their book
A Concise History of Photography. == Exhibitions ==