(ŻOB). He took an active part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He escaped the final liquidation of the ghetto by the Germans through the sewers. He first hid in the private apartment of Eugenia Wasowska-Leszczynska on Żurawia street and then in the apartment of Władysława Kowalska-Meed (nom de guerre "Władka") on Barok St. 2 in Warsaw. He was discovered by the janitor of the building who reported him to the Gestapo (the janitor was later sentenced to death on this account by the Polish Home Army). Blum tried to escape through the window on a rope made from bedsheets but broke his legs in the fall from the third story and was captured. He was captured and murdered by the Gestapo. Family and legacy His wife, Luba Blum-Bielicka, was a director of a nursing school in the Warsaw Ghetto. Together with their children, she survived the German occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. After the war she was the director of the orphanage in Otwock, and until 1949 the director of the Nurse School no. 3 in Warsaw. His symbolic grave is located on the main alley of the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa street. References 1900s births 1943 deaths Politicians from Vilnius People from Vilna Governorate Lithuanian Jews Bundists Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Warsaw Ghetto Uprising insurgents People who died in the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Combat Organization members Polish people executed by Nazi Germany Lithuanian people executed by Nazi Germany