Ella Wolfe

Ella Goldberg Wolfe (May 10, 1896 – January 8, 2000) was a Ukrainian-born American political activist and educator, who, with husband Bertram Wolfe, co-founded the Communist Party USA in 1919.

After Stalin aligned himself with Hitler in 1939, Wolfe and her husband abandoned communism and became anti-communists. At the time, the couple found themselves hated by the left and distrusted by the political right.

In 1966, Wolfe moved to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she spent her time editing her husband's papers and providing eyewitness accounts to researchers of the historic times in which she lived.

Personal life and death

In 1910, Goldberg met Bertram Wolfe. They married in 1917. She also became friends with Edward Teller, who was strongly anti-communist.