Luba Blum-Bielicka

[1] She was born in Wilno, then a part of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish Orthodox family of ten children and received her secondary education there.

[4] When the German authorities commenced with the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the students from Luba's school were taken to the Umschlagplatz and from there to the Treblinka extermination camp.

[1][5] When the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising erupted Luba's husband took an active part in it and was one of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) that fought against the Germans.

He also managed to escape from the ghetto right before the fall of the uprising but was captured while hiding on the "Aryan side" and murdered by the Gestapo.

She received the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1966[6] for her work as a nurse in a children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland.