Lejb Wulman

Who is Lejb Wulman?

Lejb Wulman was a Polish-Jewish and American physician and social activist, the co-author of the monograph on the Polish-Jewish physicians who perished in the Holocaust.

He was son of Szama and Chana Wulman. 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. In 1939 he managed to emigrate with his family to the United States.

He was a founder of the American OSE Committee, and an executive director of this organisation since 1940.

Married with Esthera Szor, they had one daughter, Mary Wulman. He died in New York in 1971.