Latvia closes investigation into Herberts Cukurs, the ‘Butcher of Riga’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

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

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

Heberts Cukurs was a principle figure in the mass murder of Jews in the forests of Riga. He does not deserve a hero's ...

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 ...

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

Prosecutors claimed that Herberts Cukurs’ actions ‘do not constitute’ genocide under the country’s criminal code ...

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance center, condemned on Tuesday the decision by the Prosecution Office of ...

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

“The decision is baffling because [Herberts] Cukurs’s horrific war crimes are indisputable,” the museum wrote in a statement. Yad Vashem offered to provide the prosecutors with evidence on Cukurs and ...

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 ...