- Summary
- Investigating the death of Herberts Cukurs, a fugitive Nazi from Latvia who had served in her grandfather's unit, and modern efforts to exonerate him for his past actions, the author explores both her family story and the legacy of the post-Holocaust era in Europe, and how that legacy extends into the present.
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. Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of redeeming Cukurs for his past actions. Researching the case, 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 were dying. Kinstler's book is an examination of how history can become distorted over time, and how carelessly the guilty are sometimes reprieved. - adapted from jacket
- Variant Title
- Come to this court and cry
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kinstler, Linda, author.
- Published
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2022
©2022
- Locale
- Latvia
Lettonie
- Edition
- First US edition
- Contents
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Prologue
The police academy, December 2019
Boris
Cukurs
The kommando
"The trial begins"
Come to this court and cry
The committee men
The victory day parade
A deposition
The crime complex
Mr Pearlman's non-fiction
Shangrilá
Past as prelude
Aron Kodesh
Before the law
The plot
Forgotten trials
Agent stories
The cosmochemist
The musical
The body of the crime
Road of contemplation
The appeal
Race for the living
The violinist's son
"God bless their souls"
One witness, no witness
Foreign Fred
Baltic Troy
The antonym of forgetting.
- Notes
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Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.
Prologue -- The police academy, December 2019 -- Boris -- Cukurs -- The kommando -- "The trial begins" -- Come to this court and cry -- The committee men -- The victory day parade -- A deposition -- The crime complex -- Mr Pearlman's non-fiction -- Shangrilá -- Past as prelude -- Aron Kodesh -- Before the law -- The plot -- Forgotten trials -- Agent stories -- The cosmochemist -- The musical -- The body of the crime -- Road of contemplation -- The appeal -- Race for the living -- The violinist's son -- "God bless their souls" -- One witness, no witness -- Foreign Fred -- Baltic Troy -- The antonym of forgetting.
