Latvia's past again in the present
Nov 04, 1999
By Benjamin Smith
RIGA - Latvia's attempt to put the Soviet regime on trial was met this week by a swell of local and international protest.The national director of the Anti Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish organization, resigned from the Latvian Commission of Historians on Oct. 29. In his letter to President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Abraham Foxman wrote that he was "deeply offended by the intermingling and confusion" of the Jewish Holocaust and Soviet atrocities in Latvia. Foxman cited the conviction of S ...
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