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4/4/2021
How a Chicago Teacher Sparked a Memory War, Forcing Lithuania to Confront its Nazi Past Historians in the News
VILNIUS, Lithuania As her mother lay dying, Silvia Foti made a promise. She vowed to continue her plans to write a book about her mother s father, Foti s grandfather, a Lithuanian hero known as General Storm.
He was among the young soldiers who fought the Soviet Union in its brief but brutal first occupation of Lithuania in 1940, and he was later shot in a KGB prison. He, like many of his comrades, is considered a national hero.
But Foti, a high school English teacher from Chicago, said that after years of researching the man, whose name was Jonas Noreika, she discovered that her grandfather collaborated with the Nazis by facilitating the extermination of thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
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My book recently came out, and I have been amazed at the power of a mere high school English teacher who initially thought she’d write a quiet book about her heroic grandfather.
A social studies teacher from my high school district told me, “Good history confronts a bad past, and that’s what your book is doing.”
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