The diary Anna kept in Auschwitz was destroyed, but she recreated it from memory in 1945. This drawing of the Union Munitions Factory in Auschwitz shows how Anna and her sister Esther smuggled out gunpowder.

Anna (Hanka), Sabina, and Esther (Estusha) Wajcblum, Warsaw, 1933.

Estusha Wajcblum, shown in 1937, was a few weeks shy of her 20^th birthday when she was hanged in January 1945 for her role in blowing up a Birkenau crematorium.

Anna credits her friend Marta, shown here with her in Brussels in 1945, with saving her life and, later on, encouraging her to educate others about her experience.  

Anna Wajcblum married Yehoshua Heilman in Israel in 1947.

In 1985, a plaque was placed at a bicycle factory in Frondenberg, Germany, that was operated by the same directors who had run the Union Munitions Factory from which Anna and Esther smuggled gunpowder.  It reads in part: “These four women are heroines of the Jewish resistance and their fate must be a reminder to us to venerate life and never lose respect for the honor of others. And they are Ala Gertner, Roza Robota, Regina Safirsztain, and Esther Wajcblum.”