[1] Elisabeth Freund studied at universities in Breslau, Würzburg, and Berlin.
In the 1930s, Elisabeth Freund lived with her husband and children in Berlin.
[2] In 1939, Freund and her husband sent their two daughters and one son, ages 11, 14, and 15 through Kindertransport to England.
Freund began working for the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, which had been founded more than a century earlier by Julius Friedlaender, the brother of her great-uncle.
In 1959, she published a biography of Friedlaender, Crusader for light: Julius R. Friedlander, founder of the Overbrook School for the Blind, 1832,.