[4][5] She grew up in the Jewish community in the city, where her father was a manager in the local branch of Banque Franco-Serbe (French-Serbian Bank).

In the early twentieth century, three brothers from the family settled in Monastir, home to an active Sephardi community.

After their occupation of Monastir in April 9, 1941, the German authorities prohibited the activities of Hashomer Hatzair and other youth movements.

[4] Her father also encouraged her to join the partisans, who saw it as a way for her to protect herself; her mother had died earlier that year of a heart disease.

[12] As Monastir's Jews were rounded up and deported by the Bulgarian authorities in March 11, 1943, Kolonomos and several other Jewish resisters such as Estreya Ovadya, Adela Feradji, Stela Levi and Rosa Kamhi managed to escape by hiding in a cigarette kiosk, belonging to a member of the anti-fascist resistance - Stojan-Bogoja Siljanovski [mk].

Kolonomos lost 18 members of her family, including her father, grandparents, and siblings, who were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp.

[4][5][9] After nearly dying of starvation in the winter of 1943–1944, Kolonomos was hit by an exploding shell and wounded in the back during the battle for Debar the following August.

[5] After the liberation of Macedonia, she married fellow partisan Čede Filipovski Dame, who had saved her life on several occasions, in December 1944.

Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in 1961,[5][7] and she became Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Philosophy in the department of Romance philology there in 1962.

[7][17] She wrote and edited various articles and books on the region's history, Ladino, and the Yugoslav-Macedonian resistance during World War II.

[4] This notably includes The Jews in Macedonia during the Second World War (1941–1945), originally published in 1986 in Macedonian, co-written with Vera Veskoviḱ-Vangeli.

[6][22] A collection of her photographs, documents, medals, and other objects is held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.