Silvia Foti
Silvia Foti is a journalist, teacher, wife, and mother living in Chicago, IL. She holds Masters degrees in Journalism, Education, and Creative Non-fiction, and has written two books. She has been published in Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, Southtown Economist, and has won awards for her investigative journalism.
All Books By Silvia Foti
The Nazi’s Granddaughter
- By: Silvia Foti
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.54(143 ratings)
Hero-or Nazi?Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community.But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story–a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.”The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family.A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.
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