Lejb Wulman
Lejb (Leon) Wulman (September 13, 1887, Berdychiv – April 28, 1971, New York City) was a Polish-Jewish and American physician and social activist, the co-author (with Joseph Tenenbaum) of a monograph on the Polish-Jewish physicians murdered in the Holocaust (The Martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland).
He was son of Szama and Chana Wulman.[1] He studied medicine at Warsaw University and qualified as a physician in 1916. In years 1916–1921 he lived and practised in Charkov; after 1921 he moved back to Warsaw. From 1921 to 1923 he served as deputy medical director of the Joint Distribution Committee for Poland. In 1923 he became a member and later director of TOZ (Jewish Health Organisation of Poland). In 1939 he managed to emigrate with his family to the United States.
He was a founder of the American Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) Committee, and an executive director of this organisation since 1940.[2]
Married with Esthera Szor, they had one daughter, Mary (Serafina) Wulman (born 1919). He died in New York in 1971.[3]
Selected works[edit]
- Pięć lat działalności TOZu: 1922–1926. Warszawa: TOZ, 1927
- 10 yor yidishe gezundshuts-arbet in Poyln: tsum 10-yorikn yubiley fun TOZ. Varshe: TOZ, 1933
- Na straży zdrowia ludu żydowskiego: 15 lat TOZ'u. Warszawa: TOZ, 1937
- In kamf farn gezunt fun yidishn folk. New York, 1968
References[edit]
- ^ Who′s who in world Jewry. Pitman Pub. Corp., 1965 p. 1064
- ^ DR. LEON WULMAN, JEWISH AGENCY AIDE. New York Times, 1971
- ^ News of the YIVO 117, 1971
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