Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring ...

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, condemned the decision this month by the Prosecution Office of the ...

Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he ...

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Today, Latvia officially spat in the face of every Holocaust victim and survivor. In a decision as shameful as it is ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. The late Herberts Cukurs, a Nazi collaborator in German-occupied Latvia, had blood on his hands. As a commander of the Arajs ...

Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby ...