| LC control no. | no2015036078 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Arājs, Viktors, 1910-1988 |
| See also | Officer of: Arāja komanda |
| Associated place | Latvia Belarus |
| Located | Rīga (Latvia) |
| Birth date | 1910-01-13 |
| Death date | 1988-01-13 |
| Place of death | Kassel (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Genocide--Latvia Crimes against humanity Mass murder |
| Found in | Ruks, Māris. Arāja komandas Lettonia, 2013: page 256 (Viktors Arājs) Wikipedia, March 18, 2015 (Viktors Arājs; b. January 13, 1910; d. January 13 1988; Latvian collaborator and Nazi SS officer, who took part in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Latvia and Belarus as the leader of the Arājs Kommando) Wkipedia, 29 June 2019 (The Arajs Kommando murdered about half of Latvia's Jews. On 21 December 1979, Arājs was found guilty in the State Court of Hamburg (Landgericht Hamburg) of having on 8 December 1941 conducted the Jews of the greater Riga Ghetto to their deaths by the mass shootings in the Rumbula forest. For participation in the murder of 13,000 people, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1988, Arājs died in solitary confinement in a prison in Kassel [Germany]. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktors_Ar%C4%81js> |
| Associated language | lav |
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