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Viktors Arājs

1910 - 1988

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Viktors Arājs (13 January 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Latvian/Baltic German collaborator and Nazi SS SD officer who took part in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Latvia and Belarus as the leader of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit. The Arajs Kommando murdered about half of Latvia's Jews. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktors Arājs is the 210th most popular social activist (up from 236th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Latvia (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Viktors Arājs ranks 210 out of 840. Before him are Hrant Dink, David Sassoon, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Mangal Pandey, Emily Davison, and Guru Ram Das. After him are Jacques Roux, Nayirah testimony, Moses Montefiore, Chen Sheng, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and Huda Sha'arawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Viktors Arājs ranks 84. Before him are Joy Adamson, Johan Ferrier, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Louis Slotin, Juan Velasco Alvarado, and Hideo Shinojima. After him are Rudolf Lange, Eero Saarinen, Paul Bowles, Chico Xavier, Masayoshi Ōhira, and Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. Among people deceased in 1988, Viktors Arājs ranks 58. Before him are Muzafer Sherif, John Carradine, Piero Taruffi, Isamu Noguchi, René Char, and Antonín Puč. After him are Renato Salvatori, Raymond Dart, Bluma Zeigarnik, Sergey Gorshkov, Takeo Miki, and Lev Pontryagin.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Viktors Arājs ranks 31 out of 323. Before him are Rainis (1865), Jānis Čakste (1859), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), and Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692). After him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), Friedrich Zander (1887), Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Oswald Külpe (1862), and Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Latvia

Among social activists born in Latvia, Viktors Arājs ranks 1. After him are Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899).

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