His most notable work, Baltaragio malūnas (Baltaragis' Windmill), was adapted as a play, a movie Devil's Bride, and a ballet.
Entering the ghetto under the pretext of recovering library books from Jewish university students, she smuggled in food and small arms (helped by Kazys Boruta, amongst others) and other provisions and smuggled out literary and historical documents, and also served as a mail carrier for the ghetto inhabitants, connecting them with the outer world.