Barbara Flerow-Bułhak Explained

Barbara Flerow-Bułhak
Country:Poland
Birth Date:23 May 1914
Death Date:August 1944 (aged 30)
Death Place:Warsaw, Occupied Poland

Barbara Flerow-Bułhak (23 May 1914 – August 1944) was a Polish chess master. She was a Women's World Chess Championship participant (1937). She was killed in the Warsaw Uprising.

Biography

Barbara Flerow-Bułhak participated in the first two finals of the Polish Women's Chess Championship. In 1935, she ranked 7th place,[1] while in 1937 she won the title of Polish Women's Chess vice-champion (both finals were played in Warsaw).[2] Also she participated in the Warsaw Women's Chess Championship twice, where in 1936 she ranked 2nd place, and in 1937 she shared together with Regina Gerlecka 1st – 2nd place.

In 1937 in Stockholm she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship and shared 17th - 20th place (tournament won by Vera Menchik).[3]

She was killed during the Warsaw Uprising, aged 30. She was exhumed in 1946 and reinterred in Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mistrzostwa Polski Kobiet w Szachach 1935. Przemysław. Jahr. 24 February 2016.
  2. Web site: Mistrzostwa Polski Kobiet w Szachach 1937. Przemysław. Jahr. 24 February 2016.
  3. Web site: 1927–39 Title Tournaments : World Chess Championship (women). www.mark-weeks.com.
  4. Web site: Lista cywilnych ofiar powstania - Barbara Flerow-Bułhak . Warsaw Uprising Museum . pl.