Through an examination of letters and journals, this book chronicles the life of a Lithuanian woman who was a heroine of the Holocaust.

The Woman in the park -- Vilnius -- Correspondence -- Ona éSimaite's Letters to Marijona éCilvinaitçe, 1957-1958 -- Caregiving and letters -- A childhood tale -- Russian letters -- Everyday writings -- Ghetto -- Mowszowicz -- Letters to Kazys Jakubçenas, 1941-1943 -- Destruction of the ghetto -- Kazys -- Kazys's death -- Alfonsas's theory -- Catholicism, sex, and sin -- Mothering -- Ludelange -- Freedom -- Toulouse -- Letters to New York -- La Courtine -- The ghetto library -- Librarians -- Writing a woman's life -- Aldutçe-- Family letters -- Soviet Schizophrenia -- Death in Vilnius -- Paris 1968 -- Single and crazy -- Cormeilles -- October.