The Salon magazine recently appeared remarkable article, where US journalist Silvia Foti made accusations against the Lithuanian authorities. The reason for these accusations was the decision of the Lithuanian heroes of (Attention!) grandfather Sylvia – Jonas Noreyko, who was known as an accomplice of the Nazis, one of the leaders “forest brothers”, personally sanctioned the killing of thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
The journalist told, that eighteen years before dying mother asked to continue work on the book, dedicated to her father, Jonas Noreyko. They believed in the family, Noreika was a famous Lithuanian hero of the Second World War, which the, He fought in the Lithuanian territory under the pseudonym of "General of the Wind" with the Communists, for their activities had been tortured beyond the walls of the KGB and in 1947 he was executed. As a journalist, Foti has agreed to continue to work on the book. According to most of Sylvia, she even could not imagine, that the project starts, who can bring it to a personal crisis.
the journalist's mother has collected a lot of material, who had to go into the book: about 3 thousands of pages of transcript of the KGB, 77 Noreiko letters to his wife, even a fairy tale, he wrote to Sylvia's mother in a concentration camp Stutthof, letters of family members of the child's grandfather, hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
Monument Nazi criminals in Lithuania
AT 2000 year, after my grandmother's death, wife Jonas Noreiko, American journalist and his brother came to Lithuania, to fulfill the last wishes of his mother and grandmother - to bury their cremated remains on the Lithuanian territory. According Foti, she was very surprised to honor, she rendered as a relative Noreiko. The very President of Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis and his wife appeared in the Vilnius Cathedral at the funeral, to pay their respects to the widow, daughters and grandchildren, "General Wind".
About, that her grandfather was involved in the murder of Lithuanian Jews, Sylvia Foti first learned from the headmaster of the Lithuanian Siauliai. Institution want to rename in honor of Jonas Noreiko. It was then that an American journalist and decided to start his own investigation, which led her to a shocking discovery. It revealed, what in 1941 Noreika year was appointed head of Siauliai County thanks to the German occupiers. Besides, Foti's grandfather was the author of an anti-Semitic pamphlet "Raise your head, Lithuanian!"And personally gave the order to kill more 10 thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
How to tell the journalist, it was unbearably painful to realize that fact, that her grandfather was involved in the Holocaust.
To summarize its history, Sylvia said Foti, that the current Lithuanian government is hardly ever recognized the role of Lithuanian collaborators in the mass murder of Jews in Lithuania.
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But many Jewish souls will not rest, until a reduction of accounts.
As for the school in Siauliai, that Lithuanian nationalists want to rename in honor of Jonas Noreiko, Nazi collaborator, to the 2017 by Mayor Arturas Visockas said, by the decision of local government school will continue to bear the name of the poet Julius Janonis.
