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.
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]