Weisz was born in London.[3] Her father, George Weisz (1929–2020), was a
Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich; 1932–2016),[4] was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from
Vienna, Austria.[5][6] Her parents left for the United Kingdom around 1938, before the outbreak of the
Second World War, to escape the Nazis.[7] Scholar
Rev. James Parkes helped her mother and her mother's family leave Austria for England.[8] Her mother's ancestry is
Austrian-Jewish, Catholic Viennese and Italian; Weisz's mother formally
converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father.[9][10][11]
She specialises in the
camera obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras, across Europe. She has described herself (with respect to her artistic activity) as an architectural detective.[17][18][19][20]
Exhibitions
King's Cross Stories, exhibition and film, Great Northern Hotel, part of the Arrivals season, King's Cross, London, 14–17 November 2007.[19]
The Diary of a derelict Dairy, The Express Dairy Depot, Bloomsbury (prior to re-development), 20 June – 20 July 2008, part of the London Festival of Architecture.[21] Weisz curated the exhibition of works upon the subject of buildings and their stories of
Bloomsbury.[22]
A Picture History of the Grenvilles of Rosedale House by Mary Yelloly. Lyndsey Stainton. Preface by Simon Finch, Helena Bonham-Carter. Designed and edited by Weisz, 2007.
Narciso Rodriguez by Betsy Berne. Co-edited by Weisz, 2008.
Norman Parkinson A Very British Glamour by Louise Baring. Designed by Lee Swillingham/Suburbia. Edited by Weisz, 2009.
Matthew Williamson by Colin McDowell. Edited by Weisz, 2010.
WKW The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai by John Powers. Co-edited by Weisz, 2016.
^Richmond, Colin; Antony Robin; Jeremy Kushner (2005). Campaigner against anti-Semitism: the Reverend James Parkes, 1896–1981.
Vallentine Mitchell. p. 312.
ISBN978-0-85303-573-2. In the 1970s, Edith Ruth Weisz, the mother of Rachel and Minnie, wrote to Parkes about the rescue of her father, Alexander Teich. Parkes, along with Bentwich, had been responsible for bringing Teich out of imminent danger in
Vienna.