page_title: Jonas Noreika
hierarchical_section_title: Jonas Noreika
caption_attribution_description: Memorial plaque at the Library of Academy of science in Vilnius: Jonas Noreika generolas Vetra
context_page_description: Jonas Noreika, also known by his post-war nom de guerre Generolas Vėtra, was a Lithuanian army officer, anti-Soviet rebel, Nazi collaborator, Nazi hostage, and anti-communist partisan.
  In July 1941, he was the leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in Telšiai District. Noreika served as Head of 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, officially 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 Lithuanian National Council. He was arrested by the Soviets in March 1946 and executed on 26 February 1947.
context_section_description: Jonas Noreika (8 October 1910 – 26 February 1947), also known by his post-war nom de guerre Generolas Vėtra (General Storm), was a Lithuanian army officer, anti-Soviet rebel, Nazi collaborator, Nazi hostage, and anti-communist partisan. 
  In July 1941, he was the leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in Telšiai District. Noreika served as Head of 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, officially 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 Lithuanian National Council. He was arrested by the Soviets in March 1946 and executed on 26 February 1947.
caption: Noreika memorial plaque at the Library of Academy of Science in Vilnius, removed July 2019, replaced September 2019
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