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Video: After Nazis Killed Her Family, This Woman Joined the Partisans to Fight Back
(Times of Israel) Josefin Dolsten - Rose Holm was 16 when the Nazis found the underground bunker where she and her family had been hiding. Holm's parents, brother and one of her sisters was shot and killed as well as scores of other Jews outside Parczew in eastern Poland. She survived lying among the corpses. A few months later, she met a childhood friend who recruited her to join a group of Jewish partisans. Members of the fighting unit, under the command of Chiel Grynszpan, lived in the forest by day and fought the Nazis at night. "I was thinking 'I have to take revenge, whatever's going to be, I don't care,'" said Holm, now 92 and living in New York City. "I never [used to] think I'm going to be alive, and that's the way I survived with the partisans." The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation website features the testimonies of Jewish partisans, including Holm and her late husband, Joe. It collected testimonies from 51 Jewish partisans from 2002 to 2015; only 16 are still alive.