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The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal Hardcover – March 9, 2021

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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.”

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.

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About the Author

SILVIA FOTI, an award-winning investigative journalist and English teacher, holds master’s degrees in journalism, education, and creative nonfiction. She has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, L.A. Parent, Dappled Things, Southtown Economist, Southwest News Herald, Buenos Aires Herald, Argentine News, and Salon.com. Fluent in Lithuanian, English, and Spanish, she lives near Chicago.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery History (March 9, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684511089
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684511082
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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- #2,027 in Jewish Holocaust History
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Pompom

Incredible book pursuing the truth, by a courageous woman!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023

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Silvia promised her mother, Dalia, on her deathbed that she would continue writing the book on her Hero father, Jonas Noreika, which she had never completed despite spending years gathering material for this book to honor his memory. Noreika was revered and regarded as a martyr for Lithuanian independence, and is still honored in Lithuania today, despite Lithuania's uncomfortable history to combat official holocaust denial and anti-semitism.
However, during Silvia's extensive research, and several visits to Lithuania over two decades, she discovers the well hidden secret about her grandfather Jonas Noreika, who had been involved in the killing of the Lithuanian Jewish population during the Second World War.
A well written book with a comprehensive list of notes, so do not be put off by its length.
A recent documentary J'Accuse! Lithuanian Comlicity in the Holocaust and its coverup, compliments and confirms the authentic and informative research of Ms Foti.
It contains interesting interviews with both Silvia Foti and Grant Gochin who had Lithuanian family members living in Lithuania in the 1930ies, and have both written books available on Amazon.

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Howard Wolinsky

The Disturbing Truths of “The Nazi’s Granddaughter”

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2021

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Chicago author Silvia Foti has written a compelling book, “The Nazi’s Granddaughter” with the wrenching tale of her grandfather Jonas Noreika, who has been hailed as a hero in Lithuania since the country became independent in the early 1990s.

Streets are named for him. Schools are named after him. Monuments are dedicated to him.

But Foti, whose dying mother asked her to write the book, found a different picture of her grandfather as she researched the book and uncovered dark secrets.

Noreika was a dashing figure, an Army officer and patriot with the good looks of a Hollywood leading man. He led a successful uprising against the Russians who had invaded his homeland in 1940.

When the Nazis occupied the country, he landed in a German concentration camp. When he was released, under the romantic codename, “General Storm,” he led another uprising against the Russians.

But he ended up in the hands of the Russians, who executed him.

Foti's grandfather was executed before Foti was born, but he was a mythical presence as she grew up in an ethnic Lithuanian neighborhood in Chicago. On her deathbed, Foti’s mom asked her journalist daughter to write a biography.

Foti seemed to have a slam-dunk story to write about a hero.

This multi-layered book has many profound themes relating to the need to tell the truth although it hurts and betrays your family’s proud legacy, and despite the fact that the truth contradicts the public image of a celebrated ancestor who is a hero in his homeland.

“The Nazi’s Granddaughter” punctures the lies perpetuated by an Orwellian Lithuanian government that prefers to rewrite history and promote as heroes figures who collaborated with the Nazis and killed their fellow citizens who happened to be Jews.

Silvia Foti’s “The Nazi’s Granddaughter” shows that the Holocaust is not just a horror from a distant time and place but one that still impacts the lives of people today

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Peter D. Shnaw

An autobiographical work.

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2021

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While each reader comes to this work with individual concerns or a personal perspective colored by the word Nazi it clearly is an autobiographical book. Mrs. Foti, born in America as a member of a gradually assimilating ethnic community rigorously pursues her grandfather's history as well as comments on her own immediate family, a troubled innocent daughter and a practically saintly husband.
The designation, Nazi, in its current use does fit her late grandfather whereas during his life, around WWII, he probably was too much of an alien for Nazi political membership. Naturally it troubles her greatly. She as an American educated individual working in journalism and education pursues both, the documents and the memories of both relatives and associates. The verdict is guilty. It is excruciatingly heavy but Mrs. Foti by being the one to present it distances herself from the deeds of her grandfather. After all, guilt is not inherited, fear of misplaced judgements may be acquired.
Having determined her grandfather's guilt Mrs. Foti focuses on erasing his once celebrated legacy. She does not pursue the question of what may have motivated his "change of heart", his monstrous deeds. She practically whitewashes the Soviets' monstrous actions in his homeland. Had she written more comprehensively of them we might have found, but not excused, an impetus to her grandfather's evil deeds.
An incidental note. Bev of the most critical review donated the book to goodwill, I must have gotten it in like new condition.

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EZ

Courageous and truthful

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2021

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Silvia's skills as a writer and journalist are well demonstrated in this personal and professional journey. At every step, she attempts to find evidence to exonerate her beloved grandfather from the gossip surrounding his culpability regarding the murder of thousands of Jews in his region of Lithuania. This gossip was attributed by many to “the Jews” and to "Communist propaganda." However, her journalist's skill, ethics and determination led her to .... the truth. Indeed, her grandfather, as commander of the region, was responsible for the murders. There were very few Jewish survivors from Lithuania, exactly for this reason- the active Lithuanian complicity in their murders. The few Jews who survived described the actions of the perpetrators. In the recorded testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses, through Yahad in Unum and also by Ruta Vanagaite, the stories are corroborated. The truth must out!

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Nora Delgadillo

Buena historia, bien documentada.

Reviewed in Mexico on April 27, 2021

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