The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal
Silvia Foti, "The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal"
English | ISBN: 1684511089 | 2021 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1684511089 | 2021 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
Hero–or Nazi?
Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community.
But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.”
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