Post war and recognition After the war Luba was the director of the children's home in Otwock and later worked in a new nursing school in Warsaw. She received the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1966 for her work as a nurse in a children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland. She also worked in a hospital in New York. She died in 1973 in Warsaw and was buried in the main alley of the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery. External links Luba Blum-Bielicka at Yad Vashem website References 1906 births 1973 deaths People from Vilensky Uyezd Lithuanian Jews Bundists Florence Nightingale Medal recipients Polish nurses Jews from the Russian Empire