Luba Blum Bielicka (1905/1906-1973)

A nurse, social nursing instructor, and activist, she was born into a traditional Jewish family, the eldest of ten siblings. She began her education at the newly opened Jewish high school in Vilnius. There, she met her future husband, Abraham (Abrasza) Blum, a Bund activist from Warsaw. Shortly thereafter, she became active in Cukunft, the Bund's youth wing. When Blum moved to Gent, Belgium, to study construction engineering, Luba Bielicka began studying at the Warsaw […]