[1] A recording of a 1995 interview with her is held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
[2] Blum was born in Chișinău, formerly known as Kishinev, then in Russia and now in Moldova, on 10 January 1914.
While in Prague she met and married Emerik Blum (1911–1984), a Bosnian politician and businessman who was Mayor of Sarajevo from 1981 to 1983.
She taught piano in Sarajevo and, from 1948 to 1952, worked as a pianist and music educator in Belgrade.
[1] An international piano competition, the Memorial Matusja Blum, was held in Sarajevo for the 4th time in 2024.