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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

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  • Aug 23, 2022
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Linda Kinstler
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In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “but... Show More

In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:
 
“After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’”
 
Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of redeeming Cukurs for his past actions. Researching the case, Linda Kinstler discovered that her grandfather, Boris, had served in Cukurs’s killing unit and was rumored to be a double agent for the KGB. The proceedings, which might have resulted in Cukurs’s pardon, threw into question supposed “facts” about the Holocaust at the precise moment its last living survivors—the last legal witnesses—were dying.
 
Rich with scholarly detective work and personal reflection, Come to This Court and Cry is a fearlessly brave examination of how history can become distorted over time, how easily the innocent are forgotten, and how carelessly the guilty are sometimes reprieved.

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Number of Pages: 320

ISBN: 154170259X

ISBN-13: 9781541702592

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons · Dec 16, 2022
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An investigated history, with dashes of memoir, true crime, and meditations on what it means to remember and to forgive, Come to This Court and Cry truly has everything. (Disclaimer: I’m friends with the author, but if you doubt the sincerity of my praise, check out the reviews.) It centers on the murder of Herbert Cukurs, a Latvian Nazi collaborator responsible for brutal mass deaths, and the competing efforts by family, state officials, survivors, and Jewish communities to craft the narrative of his memory. Woven into this investigation is Kinstler’s own family history: Though her maternal relatives are Jewish, her paternal grandfather worked alongside Cukurs and then disappeared after World War II. –NBT
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