Nurse, social nursing instructor, activist.
Born into a traditional Jewish family, she was 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. Soon after, she became active in Cukunft, the Bund's youth wing.
When Blum went to Gent, Belgium, to study civil engineering, Luba Bielicka began her studies at the Warsaw School of Nursing at the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, graduating in 1925. She also trained in outpatient healthcare in Paris and Brussels. She trained nurses at the 9th Health Center on Świętojerska Street, which opened in 1930. After Blum returned from Belgium, the couple married in Warsaw, where they settled at 9 Mylna Street.
After the outbreak of World War II, thanks to Blum-Bielicka's efforts, the Nursing School continued its operations. In November 1941, the school was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto, to a building located on the corner of Mariańska 1 and Pańska 34 Streets. After the Grossaktion in 1942, the school was relocated to Gęsia 33 Street. Students gained both theoretical and practical knowledge while providing ongoing care to patients. Blum-Bielicka hoped the school would survive in the ghetto, but her hopes were dashed when, during the deportation operation in January 1943, the Germans occupied the building and brutally murdered the patients and staff. Blum-Bielicka survived by hiding in the basement with her children. She subsequently decided to leave the ghetto, crossing to the so-called Aryan side just before the outbreak of the uprising. Her husband, a co-organizer of the underground in the ghetto and a participant in the uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo after leaving the ghetto in May 1943. Blum-Bielicka managed to survive the war thanks to false documents.
After the war, Blum-Bielicka headed the Otwock Children's Home on behalf of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, and in 1949 became director of Nursing School No. 3 in Warsaw. For her work during the war, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. After leaving Poland for the United States, she took a job at New York Hospital. She died in 1973 and was buried in the main alley of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw.
