Storm in the Land of Rain - A Memoir

A Mother's Dying WishBecomes Her Daughter's Nightmare HERO-or NAZI?Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence. Jonas Noreika, remembered as "father, a martyr had resisted his country's German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB.But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story-a "rumor" that her grandfather had been a "Jew-killer." Storm in the Land of Rain is Silvia's account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, a heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews-intensely personal, but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice. SILVIA FOTI, an award-winning investigative journalist and English teacher, holds master's degrees in journalism, education, and creative nonfi