Jonas Noreika
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Wikidata WikipediaJonas Noreika (8 October 1910 – 26 February 1947), also known by his post-war nom de guerre Generolas Vėtra (lit. 'General Storm'), was a Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan, military officer, and Nazi collaborator. In July 1941, he was the leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in the Telšiai district. Noreika ordered the murder of 1,800 Jews in the Plungė massacre, and later served as governor of the Šiauliai district during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, where he signed orders confining the district's Jews in a ghetto and confiscating their property. Noreika later became one of 46 Lithuanian authority and intellectual figures who were imprisoned by the Nazis at Stutthof concentration camp from March 1943 until the camp's dissolution on 25 January 1945 for inciting resistance to Nazi mobilization efforts. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Noreika was drafted into the Soviet Army, then worked as a jurist in Vilnius, where he was an organizer of the anti-Soviet . He was arrested by the Soviets in March 1946 and executed on 26 February 1947.
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Šiuose rumuose 1945-1946 dirbo zymus rezistentas Lietuvos tautines tarybos ir lietuvos ginkluotuhu pajegu organizatorius ir vadas Jonas Noreika Generolas Vėtra sušaudytas 1947.02.26
English translation: In these rooms 1945-1946 worked as a significant resistance in the Lithuanian National Council and Lithuanian armed forces powerful organizer and the commander Jonas Noreika General Storm shot down on 26.02.1947
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Library, Vilnius, Lithuania where they was