Photo: Supplied / Pete Kiehart
Journalist Linda Kinstler grew up not knowing much about her Latvian grandfather, other than he'd disappeared after World War Two.
It was only later, as an adult, that she learned her paternal grandfather, Boris Kinstler, had been a Nazi collaborator and member of the SS in Latvia. After the war, he became a KGB agent, and then vanished.
In search of answers about her grandfather, Linda Kinstler uncovers his links to a man called Herbert Cukurs, known as the "Butcher of Riga", implicated in the murder of 30,000 Jews in Latvia.
In researching her book, Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, she unravels a tale of revisionism, ultra-nationalism and denialism - issues that are just as timely as ever.
The Arajs Kommando, 1942. Viktors Arajs sits in the front row, third from the left. The man who may be Boris Kinstler is in the front row, far right. Photo: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 213-12 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Nationalsozialistische Gewalverbrechen (NSG), Nr. 0044 Band 015.
