Stasys Navys was a teacher in Simnas. He was an educated, intellectual man, head of the education department. He was visited by the governor and German army officers. Stasys' son, Jonas Tautvydas, knows that Stasys rescued not only Jews but also a Russian prisoner of war, rescued him under the pretext of being "on the job", and when the prisoner had to be returned, Stasys offered to hide him, saying that he had escaped, but the prisoner refused. Stasys had 9 hectares of land, he took care of the land himself and managed to teach. When the Germans retreated, there were a lot of guns left in the forest for the children to play with. After the tragedy, when one child blew himself up, Stasys buried everything, and later the weapons were handed over to the partisans. Stasys maintained a relationship with the partisans. After the war, Stasys was interrogated by the security service because of his relations with the Germans. Stasys told his wife that it was possible that he might not come back from interrogation one day. Archival material shows that Stasys was liquidated as an enemy of the state, as a patriot of Lithuania.

After Stasys' death, Stase and her children were helped by relatives to survive.

On the eve of the German invasion of Lithuania, the teacher Stasys Navys lived in the village of Gražuliai, Alytus County, with his wife, Stasė, and their three sons. In late spring 1944, Lea Port knocked on their door and asked for shelter. After escaping from the Kaunas ghetto, she had been hiding in the forest, with a group of Jews who fled from various ghettos in the area. For several months she stayed with the Ivanauskas* family in the village of Skovagaliai, but when it became too dangerous, she started looking for another shelter. Despite the danger involved, the Navyses took Port into their home, where Samuel Ingel, her future husband, later joined her. The Navys couple also helped with supplying food to other Jews hiding in the nearby forests, among them Abel Weinstein (later Aba Gefen) and his brother Joseph.