SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktors Arājs has received more than 191,891 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Viktors Arājs is the 235th most popular social activist (up from 268th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 58th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Social Activist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.61

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Viktors Arājs ranks 235 out of 840. Before him are Haim Arlosoroff, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Ludolf von Alvensleben, C. Rajagopalachari, Kate Sheppard, and Jayaprakash Narayan. After him are Simon bar Giora, Nimr al-Nimr, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marina Ginestà, David Riazanov, and David Lane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Viktors Arājs ranks 93. Before him are Jack Hawkins, Masayoshi Ōhira, Johan Ferrier, Trygve Bratteli, J. Allen Hynek, and Carmine Coppola. After him are Joan Bennett, Sylvester Stadler, Paul Bowles, Yusof Ishak, Julien Gracq, and Enrique Guaita. Among people deceased in 1988, Viktors Arājs ranks 69. Before him are Bluma Zeigarnik, Henry Murray, Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, and Piero Taruffi. After him are Charles Addams, Andrija Artuković, Edgar Faure, Ilona Elek, Raymond Dart, and Mikha'il Na'ima.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Viktors Arājs ranks 39 out of 323. Before him are Valdis Zatlers (1955), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Oswald Külpe (1862), and Laimdota Straujuma (1951). After him are Friedrich Zander (1887), Friedrich Kettler (1569), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Solomon Mikhoels (1890), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), and Maria Amalia of Courland (1653).

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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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