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Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs
Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency15h
Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he ...
Israel National News3d
Yad Vashem: Attempt to rehabilitate Herberts Cukurs distorts, ignores history
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, condemned the decision this month by the Prosecution Office of the ...
EJP2d
Latvia closes probe of Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust record
Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice. By Canaan Lidor, JNS ...
The Times of Israel on MSN3d
Report: Latvia closes investigation into Herberts Cukurs, the ‘Butcher of Riga’
Latvia closes investigation into Herberts Cukurs, the ‘Butcher of Riga’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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Latvia Buried Its Soul beside a Nazi
Today, Latvia officially spat in the face of every Holocaust victim and survivor. In a decision as shameful as it is ...
The Times of Israel on MSN3d
Yad Vashem condemns Latvia’s exoneration of ‘the butcher of Riga’
Baltic nation says it couldn't find evidence against Herberts Cukurs, believed responsible for killing tens of thousands of ...
The Jewish Chronicle1d
Latvia drops investigation into Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust participation because it was ‘not genocide'
Prosecutors claimed that Herberts Cukurs’ actions ‘do not constitute’ genocide under the country’s criminal code ...