Elisabeth Furse (30 August 1910 – 14 October 2002) was a Communist activist, World War II worker in the Pat O'Leary escape line in Marseille, and a London bistro proprietress.
She was born Louise Ruth Wolpert in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), and brought up in Berlin.
[2] As a teenager she joined the Communist Party, and in her early twenties collected money in France and England to help political refugees in Germany to escape the Nazis.
It was a marriage of convenience for a new nationality and legal residence outside Germany, where her activities with the Communists put her at risk of arrest and execution by the Gestapo.
[2][3] Furse wrote her life memoir, Dream Weaver, with the assistance of writer Ann Barr.