A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal.
Silvia Foti's mother was dying. Wanting to preserve family history, Silvia's mother asks her to write a book about Foti's grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti's grandmother tries to intervene - begging her granddaughter not to write about her husband. "Just let history lie," she whispered.
Foti had no idea that in keeping her promise to her mother, her discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, unearth Holocaust denial, and expose an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government that resulted in an internationally-followed lawsuit.
Jonas Noreika was a Lithuanian known as General Storm. He led an uprising that won the country of Lithuania back from the communists, only to have it fall under Nazi control. He was an official...
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A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal.Silvia Foti's mother was dying. Wanting to preserve family history, Silvia's mother asks her to write a book about Foti's grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti's grandmother tries to intervene - begging her granddaughter not to write about her husband. "Just let history lie," she whispered.
Foti had no idea that in keeping her promise to her mother, her discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, unearth Holocaust denial, and expose an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government that resulted in an internationally-followed lawsuit.
Jonas Noreika was a Lithuanian known as General Storm. He led an uprising that won the country of Lithuania back from the communists, only to have it fall under Nazi control. He was an official...