A new commemorative stone erected in honor of Righteous Gentile Polina Tarasewicz (born 1905, murdered 1943) was consecrated at the cemetery in Parudaminis village in the Marijampolis aldermanship in the Vilnius region on October 30, 2014. Anatoliy Kasinski, formerly Kazriel Bernan, provided testimony on how Polina Tarasewicz took in and hid him, his brother and his mother at Predtechenka village (now known as Biržiškės) in the Vilnius region. A local turned Tarasewicz in and Nazis and local collaborators set up an ambush at night.

Tarasewicz had time to tell Anatoliy to run to the forest, which is the reason he survived. The murderers took Tarasewicz and the survivor’s mother and brother to a wooded area and shot them, then they burned down her house and farm. The next day Tarasewicz’s relatives secretly dug up her body and reburied her next to her mother’s grave at the Parudaminis cemetery. At an awards ceremony at the Lithuanian Government House on April 28 of 2014, Polina Tarasewicz along with 20 other people who saved Jews during World War II at risk to their lives and those of their families were honored.

 On September 14 a group from the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum inspected Tarasewicz’s grave and determined that it was marked by a small metal cross without any inscription. The LJC asked the Vilnius regional administration on August 18 to erect a monument to Righteous Gentile Polina Tarasewicz. The monument was erected through the joint efforts of the LJC; the Vilnius regional administration; the Marijampolis aldermanship; the company of Česlavas Kaminskis which provided the stone for the monument. The LJC would like to thank personally Česlavas Kaminskis; Edmundas Šotas, head of culture, sports and tourism at the Vilnius regional administration; and Andrejus Žabelovičius, alderman of the Marijampolis aldermanship, for setting up the monument.