 With assistance from the Latvian government-in-exile in London, Arājs took on the cover name of Victor (Viktors) Zeibots.He worked in Frankfurt am Main as an assistant at a printing company.On 21 December 1979, Arājs was found guilty in the State Court of Hamburg ("Landgericht Hamburg") of having on 8 December 1941 conducted the Jews of the greater Riga Ghetto to their deaths by the mass shootings in the Rumbula forest.