[1] Wladislaw was born Blanka Wertheim on 3 June 1917, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire.
[2] Her family emigrated to Brazil when she was 14,[1] where they have faced great financial difficulty on their arrival in São Paulo.
[3] In 1949, she joined the faculty of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the USP to become and became full time assistant professor in 1953.
Blanka got a grant from the British government to conduct postdoctoral studies at the Imperial College London on organic electrosynthesis.
After retiring, she wrote a guide to the teaching of chemistry and remained at the University of São Paulo as a guest teacher.