Eliševa Šapiraitė (1921–?) was born in Vilnius. In 1940, she graduated from the “Tarbut” private Jewish Gymnasium in Vilnius. That same year, she enrolled in the Philology Department at the Faculty of Humanities of Vilnius University. On 19 September 1941, Šapiraitė was expelled from the university by the Order of 17 September 1941 of the Department of Higher Education under the Board of Education, which was subordinate to the National Socialists. No further information on the fate of Šapiraitė is known.