‘Lithuanians still regarded as a Jew-killing nation’: book in US throws spotlight on Holocaust controversy
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The restored memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika-Vėtra in Vilnius. / BNS
A controversial World War Two figure keeps dominating discussions about Holocaust memory in Lithuania, with a new book pointing at the country s alleged failure to acknowledge the role of its lionised figures in killing Jews.
In her new book The Nazi s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal, American journalist and publicist Silvia Foti details her discoveries about her grandfather Jonas Noreika. Revered by many in Lithuania as a resistance fighter against the Soviet occupation, Noreika has also collaborated with the Nazis during World War Two.