Ghizela Vass

Ghizela Vass (also Gisela or Gisella Vass; April 22, 1912 – 2004), a Romanian communist, was an activist and politician of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR). In its 2007 report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania identified her as one of the two main agents of the Communist regime involved in policies pertaining to external affairs.

Born in Iași, Vass went through seven years of elementary school, later attending the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy. A seamstress by trade, she joined the textile workers’ union in 1930 and was part of International Red Aid Chișinău from 1931 to 1933. She joined the Romanian Communist Party, then illegal, in 1933. A Jew, she was deported to the Transnistria Governorate during World War II, where she was held at the Vapniarka concentration camp together with , Simion Bughici, , Andrei Bernat, , , and Emanuel Vinea.

Vass served as adjunct to the chief of the Organizational Section of the Central Committee of the PMR; president of the county committee of party member verification from Reșița, secretary of the Bucharest city party committee (from January 1953); chief of the Women's Party Work Section of the Central Committee of the PMR (1955 – 24 January 1956); inspector for the Central Committee of the PMR and coordinator of the Foreign Cadres and Foreign Relations Sections of the Central Committee of the PMR (until January 1957); chief of the Foreign Relations Section of the Central Committee of the PMR (January 1957 – November 1965); chief of the International Section of the Central Committee of the PMR (from November 1965); and adjunct to the chief of the International Relations and International Economic Cooperation Section of the Central Committee of the PCR (1975 – February 1982). She retired in February 1982.