Author Leesha Rose, a teenaged Holocaust resistance fighting girl, passed away in Jerusalem this week.
Leesha Rose was known for her book entitled The Tulips are Red (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1978), telling her story as a Jewish girl who joined the Dutch Resistance during World War II. It also tells much about the hardships of Jewish life in Holland under Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1945. A teenager when the war broke out, she later played an important role in the Resistance Movement.
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