In 1938 the Italian Racial Laws were approved in Italy, resulting in an interruption of Anna's studies and carrier, since, despite her conversion, she was still considered a Jew.

Under the Racial Laws it was forbidden for Jews to serve in the Army, to be a guard, to be a company owner, to own land or any real estate, and to have "Aryans" living in the household.

Jews were no longer allowed to work in military and civil administration, provincial and municipal bodies, banks and insurance, schools and universities, regardless of rank.

[5] Giorgio La Pira helped her to find a new job: he accompanied her brother Enzo to visit the Archbishop of Florence and thanks to him Anna was hired at the Vatican Library.

Anna lived with the nuns, sharing the room with Tea Sesini; the two girls were colleagues at the Vatican Library, and also battle comrades.

Anna befriended a priest through whom she met, amongst other intellectuals, Gerardo Bruni, who had studied philosophy at Rome's Sapienza University, and had been involved in the Italian Popular Party.

The Germans granted the Fascists the use of the lower floors and basement of the block of flats, where Commander Mario Carità organized the Special Services Department, an institution where amnestied criminals of all kinds were welcomed.

They were made to drink oil, and subjected to torture of various kinds, such as electric shocks on the genitals, or the forced swallowing of salt, without water.

On 12 June Anna was taken by fascists to Cercina, a small location on the hills North of Florence, near Sesto Fiorentino, the only woman amongst the six young men of the Cora group of which she was a member.

After death, Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti, was decorated with the Medaglia d'oro al Valor Militare (Gold Medal of Military Valor),[8] accompanied by the following reason: -«Immemore dei propri dolori, ricordò solo quelli della Patria; e nei pericoli e nelle ansie della lotta clandestina ricercò senza tregua i fratelli da confortare con la tenerezza degli affetti e da fortificare con la fermezza di un eroico apostolato.

Here is the translation: -"Forgetful of their pain, she remembered only those of her country; and in the dangers and anxieties of the clandestine struggle she sought relentlessly the brothers to comfort with the tenderness of the affections and to fortify with the firmness of a heroic apostolate.

On June 12, 1944, a month after being taken out of the Murate Prison, in the Mugnone Greto, in the midst of a group of patriots, She was killed by a gunshot bomber: an unforgettable example of value and sacrifice. "