A kapo or prisoner functionary (German: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps...

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...

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...

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

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

work. The Höss children once wanted to play and she sewed the oldest son a kapo armband and the other children badges "triangles in different colors" such...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The Husum-Schwesing subcamp (German: KZ-Außenlager Husum-Schwesing) in the Schwesing district of Engelsburg, about five kilometres northeast of Husum,...