Antanas Matuzevičius was a farmer from the town of Pašvitinys in the Pakruojis district. Together with his wife Elena, he raised six children — three daughters and three sons. His family remembers him as a highly intelligent and curious man who loved reading both Lithuanian and Russian literature and who also spoke German.

In 1943, after the German occupation of Lithuania, Antanas made a brave and decisive choice — to help save a three-year-old Jewish girl, Chaviva Zivaitė, whose mother, Estera Ton, was imprisoned in the Šiauliai Ghetto. Antanas personally traveled to the ghetto area, took the child into his care, and transported her hidden under furs by cart to his home.

When neighbors began to suspect that the family was sheltering a Jewish girl, Antanas found a safer solution. He secretly relocated Chaviva to the homes of his sisters — Veronika Kiličiauskienė in the village of Įsionys and Julijona Valiukienė in Kivyliai — both of whom also risked their lives to keep her hidden. If the child had been discovered, the entire family would have faced execution.

In 1948, the entire Matuzevičius family was deported to Siberia during the Soviet mass deportations. Antanas returned to Lithuania only in 1956 and lived with his daughter Antanina in Kaunas. He remained intellectually curious and eager to learn until the very end of his life. He passed away in 1983.

In 1981, Antanas Matuzevičius was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for his courageous and selfless actions during the Holocaust.