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On this sixth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this sixth document signed by my grandfather Jonas Noreika.
It is dated September 10, 1941. This is less than two weeks after all the Jews (more than 2,000 innocent victims) in his region of Šiauliai were rounded up (by his order) and sent to a ghetto in Žagarė. (See previous days posts at the bottom of the article.)
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On this fifth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this fifth document sent to my grandfather Jonas Noreika. It was in response to an order he wrote on August 22, 1941 (Day 3) demanding that all Jews and half-Jews in the district of Šiauliai (of which he was in command) be sent to Žagaré in a ghetto.
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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.
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Siauliai District Mansion where Jonas Noreika worked as District Chief during the Nazi Occupation from 1941-1943
On this second day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this next document signed by my grandfather Jonas Noreika. He demands the transfer of Jews from one village to another. Why were these Jews transferred during the Holocaust? What was their fate? (Given a 96.4 percent murder rate, we are nearly assured of the outcome.)
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I would like to remember what my grandfather, Jonas Noreika, did eighty years ago during the Shoah in Lithuania throughout this week that is leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2021, by focusing on only seven of the documents he signed in 1941.
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During his tenure as District Chief of the Siauliai Region from August 1941 to March 1943, Jonas Noreika signed at least 68 known documents that profoundly impacted Jews during the Holocaust. The documents can be found here.