Alesia Umpirovič was born into a large peasant family in the village of Aziarava, Vilna Province in the northeast of the Second Polish Republic (now Viciebsk Region of Belarus).
Furs was arrested in May 1948 and received a 25-year sentence in the Gulag forced labour camps.
She was released from the Gulag following the death of Stalin and in June 1956 married Anton Furs [be], a fellow UBP member.
[2] Furs was exonerated in November 1992 and published her memoirs in a number of Belarusian periodicals.
In the last few years of her life Furs was seriously ill but never regretted the sacrifices she made in her youth.