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b'This episode looks at a deathbed promise from a daughter to a mother, which leads the daughter on a 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.
Today\\u2019s guest is the daughter -- Silvia Foti \\u2013 author of the book \\u201cThe Nazi\\u2019s Grandaughter." Her mother was dying and she wanted to preserve family history, so she asked Sylvia to write a book about Foti\\u2019s grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti\\u2019s grandmother tries to intervene \\u2013 begging her granddaughter not to write about her husband. \\u201cJust let history lie,\\u201d 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 during the Holocaust and chief of the second largest region in the country during the Nazi occupation, yet he became a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Foti set out to write a heroic biography about her famous grandfather. But as she dug ever deeper, she \\u201cencountered so much evidence proving my flesh and blood \\u2018hero\\u2019 was a Jew-killer, even I could no longer believe the lie.\\u201d'