She thought her grandfather was a Lithuanian hero. Research leads her to ask, was he a patriot or a Nazi?
CHICAGO - To this day, Silvia Foti is not sure if she was supposed to expose or exonerate her grandfather Jonas Noreika.
In Lithuania, he is remembered as General Storm, his nom de guerre when he led an underground resistance to the Soviet army's invasion of his homeland during World War II. There are statues and streets named for him. His daughter, Foti's mother, spent decades assembling myriad documents for a biography of Noreika. At 55, Foti's mother got a doctorate in literature to prepare herself to write a book about his life. But she fell ill, and never wrote it.
"In the hospital on her deathbed, she pulled me close and whispered: 'You must
