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 ...

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

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

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

Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice.The post Latvia closes probe of Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust record appeared first on JNS.org.

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 ...