Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs

Jerusalem Post - 23:40
Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring historical truth."

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, condemned Latvia's Prosecution Office's decision to close the investigation into the "infamous Latvian war criminal and Nazi collaborator Herberts Cukurs for his role in the Holocaust and involvement in the killing of tens of thousands of Jews," Yad Vashem announced in a statement on Tuesd...
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