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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 174,765 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Viktors Arājs is the 268th most popular social activist (down from 240th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Viktors Arājs ranks 268 out of 538Before him are Joe Hill, Jesse Jackson, Charles Boycott, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Clara Barton, and Nimr al-Nimr. After him are M. N. Roy, Baba Amte, Eunus, Leymah Gbowee, Joseph von Sonnenfels, and Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Viktors Arājs ranks 121Before him are Alex North, Barbara O'Neil, Gerhard Schröder, Enrique Guaita, Howlin' Wolf, and Magda Olivero. After him are Roy J. Plunkett, Johan Ferrier, Pierre Bézier, Suleiman Frangieh, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, and Claire Trevor. Among people deceased in 1988, Viktors Arājs ranks 83Before him are Edgar Faure, Divine, Anne Ramsey, Bluma Zeigarnik, Raymond Williams, and Hal Ashby. After him are Mikha'il Na'ima, Seán MacBride, Fritz Heider, Charles Addams, Hillel Slovak, and Alec Issigonis.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Viktors Arājs ranks 58 out of 284Before him are Jānis Pujats (1930), Eduard Totleben (1818), Elya Baskin (1950), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Inese Jaunzeme (1932), and Maria Skobtsova (1891). After him are Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Pēteris Stučka (1865), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), Aspazija (1865), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), and Annie Londonderry (1870).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Latvia

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