Redigerer Jonas Noreika (avsnitt)

== Holocaust i Litauen ==
[[Holocaust i Litauen]] begynte straks etter den [[Operasjon Barbarossa|tyske invasjonen av Sovjetunionen]] i juni 1941. I 2018 avslørte Silvia Foti, Noreikas barnebarn i USA, at Noreika var en fanatisk [[Antisemittisme|antisemitt]] og hadde medvirket i massedrap på jøder i Litauen. Trolig overtok Noreika huset etter jøder som han sørget for å få henrettet.<ref>{{Kilde www|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-grandfather-lithuania-holocaust-accomplice-ron-grossman-20190108-story.html|tittel=She thought her grandfather was a Lithuanian hero. Research leads her to ask, was he a patriot or a Nazi?|besøksdato=2020-11-21|forfattere=|dato=14. januar 2019|fornavn=Ron|etternavn=Grossman|verk=chicagotribune.com|forlag=|sitat=}}</ref><ref name="NYT20182">{{Kilde avis|tittel=Nazi Collaborator or National Hero? A Test for Lithuania|avis=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/world/europe/nazi-general-storm-lithuania.html|besøksdato=2018-11-05|etternavn=|fornavn=|dato=10. september 2018|side=|språk=en|sitat=It was also shocking for Jolanda Tamosiuniene, a teacher and librarian at the J. Noreika Basic School in Sukioniai, where Mr. Noreika was born at the end of the hamlet’s only street in 1910. What shocked her, however, was not Ms. Foti’s discovery that her grandfather was complicit in the Holocaust — that was not really news to locals — but that a member of a patriotic émigré family had gone public and turned a private family matter into a public national shame. “We have all heard things about what Noreika did during the war,” Ms. Tamosiuniene said. “He obviously took the wrong path. But his granddaughter should have kept quiet. Every family has its ugly things, but they don’t talk about them. It is better to stay silent.”}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi-fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator|avis=Salon|url=https://www.salon.com/2018/07/14/my-grandfather-didnt-fight-the-nazis-as-family-lore-told-it-he-was-a-brutal-collaborator/|besøksdato=2018-11-08|etternavn=Foti|fornavn=Silvia|dato=2018-07-14|side=|språk=en-US|sitat=}}</ref> 

Noreika skal «entusiastisk» ha ledet drap på jøder.{{tr}} Under Noreikas ledelse ble {{formatnum:2000}} drept i [[Plungė]], 5500 i Šiauliai og 7000 i Telšiai ifølge barnebarnet.<ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=Lithuanian national hero was ‘enthusiastic’ Jew killer, local Jews say|avis=Jewish News|url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/lithuanian-national-hero-was-enthusiastic-jew-killer-local-jews-say/|besøksdato=2018-11-05|etternavn=|fornavn=|dato=3. august 2018|side=|språk=en-US|sitat=}}</ref> Noreika signerte for eksempel 22. august 1941 ordre om å samle jødene i Šiauliai-området i en getto, flere hundre ble drept med en gang. Noreikas rolle i massedrapene i Plunge ble avdekket av ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' i 1984.<ref name=":3">{{Kilde avis|tittel=Will Lithuania continue to honor Nazi collaborators?|avis=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Will-Lithuania-continue-to-honor-Nazi-collaborators-412701|besøksdato=2018-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=„Die Mörder werden noch gebraucht“|avis=Der Spiegel|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13509989.html|besøksdato=2018-11-05|etternavn=Olschwang|fornavn=Leonid|dato=1984-04-23|bind=17|side=|sitat=Die meisten Litauer in Stutthof aber waren ehemalige Offiziere, darunter der Hauptmann Buragas, dem als Referenten für jüdische Angelegenheiten auch das Getto von Wilna unterstanden hatte, und jener Hauptmann Jonas Noreika, der den Mord an der jüdischen Bevölkerung der Stadt Plunge angeordnet und ausgeführt hatte.}}</ref> Trolig drepte han ingen jøder egenhendig.<ref name="NYT20182" />