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On this third day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this third document signed by my grandfather Jonas Noreika. It is perhaps his most famous signed document during the Holocaust. He demands the transfer of all Jews and half-Jews in the Šiauliai city and district, both of which were under his dominion at this time, to a ghetto in Žagaré.