LEON BLUM

LEON BLUM (1902-1969)

            He was born in Suvalki, with the original surname of Slonimski.  He graduated from high school in Marianpol, Lithuania, and from the Faculty of Medicine in Basel.  He survived the Holocaust, later leaving for the United States, where he practiced medicine in Woodbourne.  In book form: A geshonken lebn (A life given) (Buenos Aires: Yidishland, 1976), 198 pp., one part of which was written by Miron Leshes.  He died in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 89.