Based on original archival material, newspaper texts and relevant literature, the authors investigate the life path of Dr. Emilija Holik, a doctor from Bjelovar who in the second half of the 1930s became a communist (during her studies in Zagreb) and as such worked for the Partisans movement during the Second World War. Dr. Holik studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb and got her first job in Bjelovar at the Banovina Hospital of that time. In Bjelovar, she was involved in communist activities before the war, especially through the "Society for Education of Women" of which she was the president. With the collapse of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the April War of 1941 and the founding of the NDH (Independent State of Croatia), Dr. Holik, as a communist, interfered with the new Ustasha authorities and soon ended up in the Danica concentration camp near Koprivnica. After she was released from it, in September 1941, at the intervention of her father and other prominent people from Bjelovar, Dr. Holik returned to her workplace. Despite having lived through difficult days in the camp, she returns to her communist ideas and continues to support the Partisan movement by founding the Committee for Red Aid, together with other staff of the Bjelovar hospital, especially Dr. Svetozar Begić, who collects money and material resources for the Partisans. In addition, Dr. Holik and his colleagues in the Bjelovar hospital provide treatment for wounded Partisans under false names, and also help in hiding in the hospital premises together with other doctors who were persecuted by the Ustasha regime - Jews, Serbs, anti-fascist Croats and others. Her activities were discovered in September 1942, and she was arrested and shot in Vojnović, Bjelovar, on October 13 of the same year. Her name was well known in Bjelovar because the main medical centre there was named after her from the 1960s to 1994. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]