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Viktors Arājs

Latvian SS Officer, Nazi collaborator, perpetrator of the Holocaust, and leader of the Arajs Command (1910–1988)

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Born
January 13, 1910
Died
January 13, 1988
Zodiac sign
Capricorn
Birth year
1910

About Viktors Arājs

Viktors Arājs 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. Viktors Bernhard Arājs was born on 13 January 1910 in the town of Baldone, then part of the Russian Empire (now Latvia). Viktors Arājs raped a Jewish woman, Zelma Shepshelovitz, during the war. With assistance from the Latvian government-in-exile in London, Arājs took on the cover name of Victor (Viktors) Zeibots.

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The world when Viktors Arājs was born

Viktors Arājs was born in 1910. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1910

  • Best-selling book"The Rosary" – Florence L. Barclay

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJack Johnson defends heavyweight title, sparking nationwide debate
  • Top headlineBoy Scouts of America founded
  • Technology milestoneFirst neon lighting demonstrated in Paris
  • World population~1.7B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population92.2M

1910 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Viktors Arājs's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19102026
Average home$3,395$435,000
Average income$574$67,500
Postage stamp$0.02$0.73
Population92.2M341 million

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