 She joined the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (the United Partisan Organisation), formed that same year by poet Abba Kovner.Margolis wrote "Everyone was anxious to fight... Our mission was to acquire weapons, complete militarily preparations, all with the aim of provoking an uprising in the ghetto.If we perished it would be with honour, having proved to humanity that we are not sheep going meekly to the slaughter."