Alexander, who spoke five languages, worked as a translator for UNESCO and Amnesty International, and performed in movies and plays in Mexico.

[2] She learned German, Spanish, French, Greek, Latin and English and later, due to her extensive knowledge of language, was employed as a translator for UNESCO and Amnesty International.

During a trip to Austria with her Aryan boyfriend, news broke that Hitler had won power and he left her to return to Germany.

In 1942, a telegram advised the young family that Albert Einstein and Rudolph Uhlman, a lawyer in New York, had secured visas through Ambassador Gilberto Bosques for them to escape to Veracruz, Mexico aboard the ship San Thomé.

[1] She wrote the monologue "The Return", and, in 1951,[1] produced the first Mexican telenovela, adapted from a drama by Cuban writer Félix B. Caignet, Angeles de la Calle[4] which ran from March 1952 to July 1955[1] and was sponsored by the Lotería Nacional.