A probe into a Latvian officer who led mass killings of Jews during World War II has been dropped — for a third time. Herbert ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

“One could not but feel outrage at the news about the showing of the musical titled Cukurs. Herberts Cukurs in the city of Liepaja. It glorifies a member of the Arajs Kommando, which during ...

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 ...