Former Skuodas Lithuanian secondary-school teacher Stasys Žukauskas lived with his daughter Stasė (Stanislava) Jankienė and her husband Augustinas Jankus in Gintalaičiai village, Kretinga county. Stasys’s wife, Stanislava Žukauskienė Tallat-Kelpšaitė, died giving birth to their second child. Stasys raised the younger Stanislava alone. Augustinas worked on his farm and met Stanislava there. The family worked the farm, and Stanislava and Augustinas had two children, Donatas, born in 1942, and Andrius, who died young. In December 1943, Stasė’s former classmate Estera Želikovič appeared at their door and asked for shelter. Originally from Skuodas, she had escaped from the Šiauliai ghetto in October 1943 and wandered through the countryside until reaching the outskirts of Gintalaičiai, where she remembered her friend Stasė. She was warmly welcomed into the Žukauskas home. Stasys, who managed the farm and its hired workers, treated her as his daughter’s friend visiting for a holiday. This was also what the workers were told. However, with many outsiders in the house, another refuge was sought. They found shelter with a neighbouring farming couple, who agreed to take her in in exchange for two sheep provided by Žukauskas. She stayed there briefly, then returned to the Žukauskas–Jankus home, where they hid her in the attic until the Red Army arrived. Želikovič, later Šarvit, left Lithuania for Eretz Israel, arriving in September 1945. Žukauskas was killed in 1945. The Jankus family and their children were deported to Siberia and were allowed to return to their village in the 1950s. Their own house was gone, so they returned to the home of Stasys’s brother Ignas Žukauskas. They spent the rest of their lives working on a collective farm. Stanislava loved music and sang in the church choir.