Talking to young students about the Holocaust The Washington Post

Kapo Camps De Concentration. On this day in history, April 11, 1945, US troops enter Buchenwald concentration camp, confront Un kapo était une personne chargée d'encadrer les prisonniers dans les camps de concentration nazis A kapo or prisoner functionary was a special type of prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps during The Holocaust

The SS forced some prisoners to help run concentration camps After World War II, the term was reused as an insult; according to The Jewish Chronicle, it is "the worst insult a Jew can give another Jew"

Pope Francis, Visiting Auschwitz, Asks God for the ‘Grace to Cry’ The New York Times

A kapo or prisoner functionary was a special type of prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps during The Holocaust 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 supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks Les détenus Prominenter KZ-Häftling : détenu privilégié de camp de concentration, « éminence » c'est à dire, un « cadre » qui occupe un rang dans la hiérarchie d'un camp du Lagerältester, Blockältester, Kapo, Vorarbeiter, Stubendienst, au Lagerschutz

Auschwitz le 27 janvier 1945, la libération du camp [EN IMAGES]. The SS forced some prisoners to help run concentration camps Les kapos étaient souvent recrutés parmi les prisonniers de droit commun les plus violents 1 ou parmi ceux dont la ruse ou la servilité avait permis de figurer parmi les anciens, en échappant provisoirement aux « charrettes » menant à l.

Talking to young students about the Holocaust The Washington Post. 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 supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks A kapo leader at Salaspils concentration camp, Latvia, with a Lagerpolizist (camp policeman) armband