My Grandfather Went to Stutthof: That Doesn’t Erase What He Did to Jews
For decades, Lithuania has pointed to my grandfather Jonas Noreika’s imprisonment at the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof as proof that he was an anti-Nazi hero.
The Defense’s Last Witness Drew the Map
A commemorative drawing handed to me by one of my grandfather’s most devoted defenders placed him in command of the 1941 uprising in western Lithuania—and
My Grandfather’s Antisemitism Did Not Begin With the Nazis
Before Jonas Noreika signed the orders during the Nazi occupation, he had already published an antisemitic political program in 1933 My grandfather’s 1933 pamphlet is public, scanned,
From the Other Side of the Photograph
Dear Liam, You do not know my background and what I carry, as I know your background and your family history. You barely know me,
Genocide Center’s Pattern Is Proof of Distortion
The Genocide Center’s defense of my grandfather is not revealed by any single false claim. It is revealed by a pattern that never changes: every
What Lithuania Did with the Signature
My grandfather signed orders connected to the ghettoization, expropriation, and liquidation of Jewish property in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. The Lithuanian state preserved those documents in its