# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktors-arajs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:06.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktors-arajs"
name: "Viktors Arājs"
slug: "viktors-arajs"
description: "Viktors Arājs 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, a collaborationist unit. The Arajs Kommando murdered about half of Latvia's Jews."
tagline: "Latvian SS Officer, Nazi collaborator, perpetrator of the Holocaust, and leader of the Arajs Command (1910–1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Viktors_Ar%C4%81js.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1910-01-13"
deathDate: "1988-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.426588953649736
  historical:           16.748212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 139
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump