Juozas Bižys lived in Radvilioniai village in the Veisiejai area. During the Second World War, his home with his wife Janina became a refuge for Jewish women who had escaped from the Kaunas ghetto – sisters from the Fridkauskas family.

Before the war the Fridkauskas family lived in Kapčiamiestis and owned a shop. The father of the family died in 1938. After the war began, three of the children – Sara, Liza (Lea) and Ben Cion – ended up in the Kaunas ghetto. In 1943 they managed to escape. An acquaintance, Chmieliauskas, then working at the Kaunas Philharmonic, found a Lithuanian cart driver who agreed to take them back to the Kapčiamiestis area, where they hoped to receive help from local residents who had visited their family's shop before the war.

The first person to shelter them was Teofilis Žarnauskas in Barčiai village. The Žarnauskas family prepared hiding places in the kitchen and in the forest and supplied them with food for eight months. When the police began actively searching for escaped Jews, however, other places had to be found. The Levulys family in Šadžiūnai village also joined the rescue effort.

Albina Levulienė approached her brother Juozas Bižys, who lived in Radvilioniai village, and asked him to take in Sara Fridkauskaitė. Juozas agreed. He later managed to obtain forged identity papers for Sara under a Russian surname. This meant that she no longer had to remain confined to a hiding place: she could live openly and even found work as a hired farmhand for a prosperous farmer.

After some time Sara's sister Liza (Lea) Fridkauskaitė, later Kurliandčik, also moved into the Bižys home. She remained with them until the end of the Nazi occupation in 1944. Their brother Ben Cion was mainly hidden by the Levulys family.

The help provided by the Bižys family therefore went beyond short-term shelter. Juozas took the persecuted girls into his home, and by obtaining a false identity for Sara he enabled her to live outside a hiding place with far less risk of arousing suspicion.

After the war the rescued people left for Israel, but their ties with the people who had saved them did not end; they maintained close relationships with their rescuers.