Dorrit Dekk

Dorrit Dekk (born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann; 18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter.

[2] Following the Anschluss in 1938, Dekk - who was Jewish [1] - escaped to London, where she took up a place at the Reimann School through a scholarship arranged by Niedermoser and specialised in graphic design.

[3] Following the closure of the Reimann School in 1939, Dekk joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and as a linguist became a radio intelligence officer listening to U-boat communications.

[3] As a Y-station 'listener', she intercepted coded messages sent to German naval forces with her hand-written transcripts then being sent to Bletchley Park for deciphering.

[7] Dekk left the Central Office of Information in 1948 to spend a year in Cape Town, where she worked as a stage designer and illustrator.