War crimes case of Viktor Bernhard Arajs
Extent and Medium
folders
6
,
11 microfiche,
Archival History
United States. Department of Justice.
Acquisition
The copy of the indictment, verdict, and English translation of the indictment of the Viktor Arajs case were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the United States Office of Special Investigations. The English translation of the indictment was completed by CRH and Associates on 10 May 1984.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of the indictment and the verdict in the case of Viktor Bernhard Arajs. Among the documents are lists of witnesses, results of the investigation, and information concerning Arajs' crimes against Jews in Latvia and the Soviet Union. An English translation is included for the indictment only.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Arajs, Viktor Bernhard.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Department of Justice. Office of Special Investigations
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei
Subjects
- Communism.
- Auxiliary Police--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- War crimes--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Soviet Union.
- Executions and executioners.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Rīga.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Courts
Genre
- Document
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