A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to...

death by the SS guards and Kapos, starving to death in bunkers, hangings and mass shootings. At times the guards or Kapos would either deliberately throw...

book about Jewish kapos. Leo Baeck Bookshop, official website. Retrieved 8 May 2010 (in German) Marc Schemmel, Funktionshäftlinge im KZ Neuengamme. Zwischen...

charged with forced labor were overseen by prisoner functionaries known as Kapos. Whether a prisoner was assigned to a physically easy or difficult Kommando...

Kapo: Death, executed: July 4, 1946 Kazimierz Kowalski, Kapo: 3 years imprisonment Jan Brajt, Kapo: Death, executed: July 4, 1946 Aleksy Duzdal, Kapo:...

Germany) was a German KZ trustee (Funktionshäftling) and Kapo as well as an inmate nurse (KZ-Häftlingspfleger) in Block 46 of KZ Buchenwald. Dietzsch attended...

Sentences". Retrieved 29 December 2012. "First Belsen Trial Kapo Erich Zoddel". Stalag XIC (311) and KZ Bergen-Belsen, A History From 1935. Retrieved 17 December...

the chaos of liberation, a number of former kapos were killed. After the war, some SS personnel and kapos were tried for their crimes, although most went...

as "political" according to the concentration camp system - except the Kapos - and came from all over Europe. They had been arrested as resistance fighters...

on those who had been their overseers at Mittelbau. About 170 of these "Kapos" were killed on April 15, 1945.: 62  On April 20, four German fighter planes...

covering both practical and theoretical topics but watched carefully by kapos. Those who failed to advance were sent to work in the quarries, while those...

4, p. 133 Pascal Cziborra, Frauen im KZ: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der historischen Forschung am Beispiel des KZ Flossenbürg und seiner Aussenlager, pp...

criminal (green patch) and thus likely of a tough temperament suitable for kapo duty. Someone with an escape suspect mark usually would not be assigned to...

for his alleged role in the murder of Dutch prisoners during his time as a kapo at the camp. In the GDR, various subsequent trials took place against members...

stern (magazine), 5 October 2007. Tuvia Friling (1 July 2014). A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival. Brandeis University...

atrocious conditions, in dust, insufficient air, and under the blows of the kapos. Many returned to the camp exhausted, with barely enough energy to eat their...

additional food rations. The match was against Walter Dünning, a German kapo and the German middleweight vice-champion. The match was judged by Bruno...

concentration camp, there also existed a prisoner system of trustees known as Kapos who performed a wide variety of duties from administration to overseeing...

was regularly drunk at work and built up relationships with some of the Kapos. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his job dutifully as overseer of parts of the...

and killed by guards and kapos for the slightest infraction of the rules. Polish historian Irena Strzelecka writes that kapos were given nicknames that...

Maršálek promptly joined. The group worked to get conspirators assigned to Kapo positions, where they would use what little influence they had to save as...

hanging Josef Leeb – death by hanging Wilhelm Henkel – death by hanging Kapo Willy Frey – death by hanging Leopold Trauner (DEST-Gusen) – death by hanging...

Gerstenmeier, SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Vögel, Kapo Edmund Pohlmann, SS-Rottenführer Theodor Schöllen and Kapo Heinrich Stalp. After the trial, and deliberations...

Szmajzner was part of a group of four prisoners who killed the camp's chief Kapo. To arm his team in his workshop, Szmajzner stole and hid several carpentry...

concentration camps. Poland held four trials in Gdańsk against former guards and kapos of Stutthof, charging them with crimes of war and crimes against humanity...

memoirs that the term was first used by camp's prisoners to refer to the Kapos –prisoners assigned to supervise forced labor by the SS guards− as to them...

included 30 common criminals from Sachsenhausen to perform the function of Kapo, along with Soviet prisoners-of-war and Polish prisoners who included peasants...

those prisoners were dying.: 20  SS soldiers and appointed prisoners called Kapos also oversaw prisoners with varying degrees of brutality.: 20  In an oral...

Gedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Ausgabe 1, 2006 - Themenheft: Neue Forschungen zum KZ-System auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, S. 33 u. f. "Prisoner...

Konzentrationslager, the German word for "concentration camp". Another abbreviation, KZ, was used by prisoners and others informally, and eclipsed the popularity...