1. Jonas Noreika later became one of 46 Lithuanian authority and intellectual figures 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.
Jonas Noreika was arrested by the Soviets in March 1946 and executed on 26 February 1947.
Jonas Noreika was born in Sukioniai in western Lithuania in 1910.
Jonas Noreika studied law at Vytautas Magnus University, and went on to serve in the military.
Jonas Noreika wrote for the military press, served on a military tribunal, and was later promoted to captain.
Soviet forces occupied Lithuania in June 1940, and Jonas Noreika was released into the reserves that October.
Jonas Noreika is credited as the leading organizer in Samogitia of the underground, anti-Soviet Lithuanian Activist Front.
Jonas Noreika made several trips to Nazi Germany with the help of former police officer Kazys Silgalis, and maintained contact with Pilypas Narutis of LAF Kaunas and Juozas Kilius of LAF Vilnius.
At the start of the June Uprising in Lithuania, on 22 June 1941, Jonas Noreika led a platoon of farmers and youths in Mardosai.
In July 1941, Jonas Noreika's rebels held the 1,800 Jews of Plunge in a synagogue for two weeks.
Jonas Noreika was appointed governor of the Siauliai district on 3 August 1941.
Jonas Noreika issued orders on 22 August and 10 September 1941 on sending all the Jews of the district to ghettos and on the confiscation and distribution of their property.
Jonas Noreika was sent by the Nazis on a propaganda trip to Germany from 31 January 1943 to 16 February 1943 as part of a group of 14 Lithuanian officials.
Jonas Noreika was arrested and dismissed from his position of governor on 23 February 1943, for failing to fulfil orders to raise a Waffen-SS division from the local population.
Jonas Noreika studied English, but persisted in believing that the Nazis would defeat the Allies.
In 1944, when the Germans retreated, Jonas Noreika was evacuated with other prisoners.
In November 1945, Jonas Noreika returned to Vilnius, where he found work as a legal advisor to the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
Soon, along with Ona Lukauskaite-Poskiene and Stasys Gorodeckis, Jonas Noreika founded the self-proclaimed National Council of Lithuania, which worked to centralize anti-Soviet partisan forces throughout the country.
Jonas Noreika assumed the rank of general and the nom de guerre Generolas Vetra.
When first interrogated, Jonas Noreika claimed that he worked for Soviet military counter-intelligence SMERSH, but three weeks later, he asserted that he had lied.
Jonas Noreika was executed on 26 February 1947, and buried in a mass grave by Tuskulenai Manor.
Jonas Noreika has been criticized by numerous scholars and organisations for his active role in the Holocaust in Lithuania.