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The Nazi's granddaughter : how I discovered my grandfather was a war criminal / by Silvia Foti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foti, Silvia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War criminals--Lithuania.
- War criminals.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Lithuania.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing, [2021]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I DEATHBED PROMISE: Not Nearly as Long after the Beginning
- ch. One A Daunting Legacy
- ch. Two Confronting the Shrine
- ch. Three The Imprisonment and Trial of Jonas Noreika
- ch. Four The Last Letter
- ch. Five The Blue Danube
- pt. II A TROUBLING RUMOR
- ch. Six Ghosts
- ch. Seven Fatherless
- ch. Eight A Tarnished Halo
- ch. Nine The Arrest of Jonas Noreika
- ch. Ten Tender Letters and a Dark Fairy Tale
- ch. Eleven The 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 The Blood Libel
- ch. Twenty-One A Privileged Status in Hell
- ch. Twenty-Two A Torrent of Questions
- ch. Twenty-Three The 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 The Death of Denial
- ch. Thirty A Holocaust Map
- ch. Thirty-One Interview at the Museum of Genocide Victims
- ch. Thirty-Two The 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:
- Includes bibliographical information and index.
- ISBN:
- 1684511089
- 9781684511082
- OCLC:
- 1198374226
- Publisher Number:
- 99987064916
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