Page 53 - Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana. Edelman. The Man

Abrasza Blum (1905-1943)
i Luba Bielicka-Blum (1905-1973)
‘I only saw him out of necessity. At that time, I was filled
with admiration for him. That man could surely do more
than I could, and yet everything was important to him. He
was capable of arranging the smallest and least important
things for other people. ‘They must constantly see, he used
to say, that somebody is taking care of them’.
Marek
Edelman

Abrasza Blum, an important activist of Bund, died on the
Aryan side in May 1943, murdered by the Gestapo. After the
war, Luba Bielicka-Blum ran an orphanage for children –
Holocaust survivors in Otwock; in 1949, she was appointed
the head of the Nursing School in Warsaw. Later, she left
for America and worked in the New York Hospital. She
was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest
nursing decoration by the International Red Cross.

‘There was an outpatient clinic next to Umschlagplatz. It
employed the students of the nursing school, which was in
fact the only school in the ghetto. The school was run by
Luba Blum, who saw to it that everything was as it should
be in a real, decent school: snow-white aprons, starched
nurse caps and exemplary discipline’.
Marek
Edelman