Herberts Cukurs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herberts Cukurs

Aviator, Latvian Holocaust perpetrator

Date of Birth: 17-May-1900

Place of Birth: Liepāja, Latvia

Date of Death: 23-Feb-1965

Profession: military personnel, journalist, aircraft pilot

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Herberts Cukurs (17 May 1900 in Liepaja, Russian Empire – 23 February 1965 in Shangrilá, Uruguay) was a Latvian aviator.
He was a member of the Arajs Kommando, which was involved in the mass murder of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust.
He never stood trial, though there are eyewitness accounts linking Cukurs to war crimes.
He was assassinated by operatives of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) in 1965. The Mossad agent "Künzle", who killed Cukurs, and the journalist Gad Shimron wrote a book, The Execution of the Hangman of Riga in which they called Cukurs the "Butcher of Riga", and the term was later picked up by several sources.