The Nazi's granddaughter : how I discovered my grandfather was a war criminal / by Silvia Foti.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1684511089
- ISBN: 9781684511082
- Physical Description: xxiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 16 cm
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical information (pages 339-346) and index. |
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Subject: | War criminals > Lithuania. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Lithuania > Personal narratives. Jews > Persecutions > Lithuania. |
Genre: | Personal narratives. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Webb City Public Library | 940.53 Foti, Silvia (Text) | 38262300006458 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
The Nazi's Granddaughter : How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
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Table of Contents
The Nazi's Granddaughter : How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction Long, Long, Long after the Beginning | p. xxi | |
Part I | Deathbed promise | |
Not Nearly as Long after the Beginning | p. 3 | |
Chapter 1 | A Daunting Legacy | p. 5 |
Chapter 2 | Confronting the Shrine | p. 11 |
Chapter 3 | The Imprisonment and Trial of Jonas Noreika | p. 19 |
Chapter 4 | The Last Letter | p. 29 |
Chapter 5 | The Blue Danube | p. 35 |
Part II | A Troubling Rumor | |
Chapter 6 | Ghosts | p. 45 |
Chapter 7 | Fatherless | p. 53 |
Chapter 8 | A Tarnished Halo | p. 61 |
Chapter 9 | The Arrest of Jonas Noreika | p. 69 |
Chapter 10 | Tender Letters and a Dark Fairy Tale | p. 75 |
Chapter 11 | The KGB Transcripts | p. 83 |
Chapter 12 | Beginning the Dreaded Search | p. 101 |
Chapter 13 | Fault Lines | p. 117 |
Part III | Layers of truth | |
Chapter 14 | An Unreliable Witness | p. 127 |
Chapter 15 | Groundwork for a Rebellion | p. 135 |
Chapter 16 | A Slaughter of Innocents | p. 143 |
Chapter 17 | A Maze of Alibis | p. 147 |
Chapter 18 | Lost Credit | p. 153 |
Chapter 19 | Murder and Celebration | p. 163 |
Chapter 20 | The Blood Libel | p. 167 |
Chapter 21 | A Privileged Status in Hell | p. 177 |
Chapter 22 | A Torrent of Questions | p. 191 |
Chapter 23 | The Candle That Went Out | p. 199 |
Chapter 24 | Pilgrimage | p. 209 |
Chapter 25 | A Desperate Rationale | p. 215 |
Chapter 26 | Exile | p. 219 |
Chapter 27 | Playing for Power | p. 227 |
Chapter 28 | Germany's Fifth Column | p. 243 |
Chapter 29 | The Death of Denial | p. 253 |
Chapter 30 | A Holocaust Map | p. 257 |
Chapter 31 | Interview at the Museum of Genocide Victims | p. 275 |
Chapter 32 | The Mud Pits | p. 279 |
Chapter 33 | Killing Ground | p. 291 |
Chapter 34 | A Stolen House | p. 299 |
Chapter 35 | Acts of Remembrance | p. 307 |
Chapter 36 | Storm in the Fatherland | p. 317 |
Appendix Jonas Noreika's Unfinished Fairy Tale, 1944 | p. 329 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 337 | |
Selected Bibliography | p. 339 | |
Notes | p. 347 | |
Index | p. 373 |