 and her home was a temporary shelter for Jews who had escaped the ghetto and a refuge for Jewish children until families could be found to house them until war's end. As the Vilna ghetto faced evacuation to death camps, Anna provided false documents for a 10-year-old Jewish girl, even claiming to be the child's aunt, and she smuggled a sick young woman out of the ghetto, nursing her back to health in her home and the university library. But Anna was caught, tortured, and sent to a concentration camp herself.