- Summary
- "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." The Nazi's Granddaughter is Silvia's account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi's Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice."--Book flap.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Foti, Silvia, author.
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2021]
©2021
- Locale
- Lithuania
Lituanie
- Contents
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pt. I DEATHBED PROMISE: Not Nearly as Long after the Beginning
ch. One A Daunting Legacy
ch. Two Confronting the Shrine
ch. Three Imprisonment and Trial of Jonas Noreika
ch. Four Last Letter
ch. Five Blue Danube
pt. II A TROUBLING RUMOR
ch. Six Ghosts
ch. Seven Fatherless
ch. Eight A Tarnished Halo
ch. Nine Arrest of Jonas Noreika
ch. Ten Tender Letters and a Dark Fairy Tale
ch. Eleven KGB Transcripts
ch. Twelve Beginning the Dreaded Search
ch. Thirteen Fault Lines
pt. III LAYERS OF TRUTH
ch. Fourteen An Unreliable Witness
ch. Fifteen Groundwork for a Rebellion
ch. Sixteen A Slaughter of Innocents
ch. Seventeen A Maze of Alibis
ch. Eighteen Lost Credit
ch. Nineteen Murder and Celebration
ch. Twenty Blood Libel
ch. Twenty-One A Privileged Status in Hell
ch. Twenty-Two A Torrent of Questions
ch. Twenty-Three Candle That Went Out
ch. Twenty-Four Pilgrimage
ch. Twenty-Five A Desperate Rationale
ch. Twenty-Six Exile
ch. Twenty-Seven Playing for Power
ch. Twenty-Eight Germany's Fifth Column
ch. Twenty-Nine Death of Denial
ch. Thirty A Holocaust Map
ch. Thirty-One Interview at the Museum of Genocide Victims
ch. Thirty-Two Mud Pits
ch. Thirty-Three Killing Ground
ch. Thirty-Four A Stolen House
ch. Thirty-Five Acts of Remembrance
ch. Thirty-Six Storm in the Fatherland
APPENDIX
Jonas Noreika's Unfinished Fairy Tale, 1944.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical information (pages 339-346) and index.
pt. I DEATHBED PROMISE: Not Nearly as Long after the Beginning -- ch. One A Daunting Legacy -- ch. Two Confronting the Shrine -- ch. Three Imprisonment and Trial of Jonas Noreika -- ch. Four Last Letter -- ch. Five Blue Danube -- pt. II A TROUBLING RUMOR -- ch. Six Ghosts -- ch. Seven Fatherless -- ch. Eight A Tarnished Halo -- ch. Nine Arrest of Jonas Noreika -- ch. Ten Tender Letters and a Dark Fairy Tale -- ch. Eleven KGB Transcripts -- ch. Twelve Beginning the Dreaded Search -- ch. Thirteen Fault Lines -- pt. III LAYERS OF TRUTH -- ch. Fourteen An Unreliable Witness -- ch. Fifteen Groundwork for a Rebellion -- ch. Sixteen A Slaughter of Innocents -- ch. Seventeen A Maze of Alibis -- ch. Eighteen Lost Credit -- ch. Nineteen Murder and Celebration -- ch. Twenty Blood Libel -- ch. Twenty-One A Privileged Status in Hell -- ch. Twenty-Two A Torrent of Questions -- ch. Twenty-Three Candle That Went Out -- ch. Twenty-Four Pilgrimage -- ch. Twenty-Five A Desperate Rationale -- ch. Twenty-Six Exile -- ch. Twenty-Seven Playing for Power -- ch. Twenty-Eight Germany's Fifth Column -- ch. Twenty-Nine Death of Denial -- ch. Thirty A Holocaust Map -- ch. Thirty-One Interview at the Museum of Genocide Victims -- ch. Thirty-Two Mud Pits -- ch. Thirty-Three Killing Ground -- ch. Thirty-Four A Stolen House -- ch. Thirty-Five Acts of Remembrance -- ch. Thirty-Six Storm in the Fatherland -- APPENDIX -- Jonas Noreika's Unfinished Fairy Tale, 1944.
