A kapo or prisoner functionary (German: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise... 34 KB (3,858 words) - 21:32, 8 April 2024 |
Mauthausen concentration camp (redirect from KZ Gusen I) 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... 74 KB (7,923 words) - 02:21, 26 March 2024 |
Subcamp (redirect from KZ-Außenlager) with construction tasks were overseen by prisoner functionaries known as Kapos. Whether a prisoner was assigned to a physically easy or difficult Kommando... 10 KB (1,062 words) - 13:08, 19 March 2024 |
Kapo: Death, executed: July 4, 1946 Kazimierz Kowalski, Kapo: 3 years imprisonment Jan Brajt, Kapo: Death, executed: July 4, 1946 Aleksy Duzdal, Kapo:... 23 KB (2,275 words) - 02:41, 7 February 2024 |
Flossenbürg concentration camp (redirect from KZ Flossenbürg) 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... 45 KB (5,529 words) - 04:37, 27 April 2024 |
Arthur Dietzsch (category Kapos (concentration camp)) 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... 8 KB (1,028 words) - 23:08, 29 March 2024 |
Gusen concentration camp (redirect from KZ Gusen) 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... 42 KB (5,135 words) - 17:57, 4 March 2024 |
Sachsenhausen concentration camp (redirect from KZ Sachsenhausen) 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... 40 KB (4,662 words) - 09:32, 9 February 2024 |
Ladelund concentration camp (section Kapos) as "political" according to the concentration camp system - except the Kapos - and came from all over Europe. They had been arrested as resistance fighters... 22 KB (2,800 words) - 22:48, 4 March 2024 |
4, p. 133 Pascal Cziborra, Frauen im KZ: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der historischen Forschung am Beispiel des KZ Flossenbürg und seiner Aussenlager, pp... 46 KB (5,400 words) - 16:26, 5 April 2024 |
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (redirect from KZ Bergen-Belsen) 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... 65 KB (7,581 words) - 07:51, 9 February 2024 |
stern (magazine), 5 October 2007. Tuvia Friling (1 July 2014). A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival. Brandeis University... 125 KB (5,211 words) - 14:13, 21 April 2024 |
additional food rations. The match was against Walter Dünning, a German kapo and the German middleweight vice-champion. The match was judged by Bruno... 19 KB (1,977 words) - 17:03, 8 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (903 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024 |
Auschwitz concentration camp (redirect from KZ Auschwitz) pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps... 185 KB (21,022 words) - 20:56, 11 April 2024 |
SS-Totenkopfverbände (redirect from KZ Wachverbände) concentration camp, there also existed a prisoner system of trustees known as Kapos who performed a wide variety of duties from administration to overseeing... 44 KB (4,954 words) - 13:12, 31 March 2024 |
Langenstein-Zwieberge (redirect from KZ Langenstein-Zwieberge) 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... 14 KB (2,066 words) - 15:50, 31 July 2023 |
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... 12 KB (1,380 words) - 08:10, 10 April 2024 |
those prisoners were dying.: 20 SS soldiers and appointed prisoners called Kapos also oversaw prisoners with varying degrees of brutality.: 20 In an oral... 16 KB (1,697 words) - 13:41, 20 April 2024 |
Stutthof concentration camp (redirect from KZ Stutthof) 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... 36 KB (3,757 words) - 16:16, 4 April 2024 |
Bruno Brodniewicz (category Kapos (concentration camp)) 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... 5 KB (582 words) - 21:13, 8 April 2024 |
hanging Josef Leeb – death by hanging Wilhelm Henkel – death by hanging Kapo Willy Frey – death by hanging Leopold Trauner (DEST-Gusen) – death by hanging... 10 KB (1,321 words) - 18:32, 29 March 2024 |
were stomped or what, but they were killed." Elsewhere in the camp SS men, Kapos and informers were beaten badly with fists, sticks and shovels. There was... 28 KB (3,336 words) - 21:26, 8 April 2024 |
to pieces in front of the other prisoners. According to Alfred Hübsch, a kapo at the camp, lice spread around the camp in January 1945. This led to many... 15 KB (1,910 words) - 13:42, 27 April 2024 |
The Husum-Schwesing subcamp (German: KZ-Außenlager Husum-Schwesing) in the Schwesing district of Engelsburg, about five kilometres northeast of Husum,... 11 KB (1,385 words) - 02:43, 27 February 2024 |