Kapos

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
קאפו
Name (Latin)
Kapos
Name (Arabic)
الكابو
See Also From tracing topical name
Nazi concentration camp inmates
Nazi concentration camp inmates as guards
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q702997
Library of congress: sh2002012253
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Tisma, A. Kapo, c1993.
  • Encyc. of the Holocaust (Kapo, from Italian capo, "chief," "boss"; used in Nazi concentration camps for an inmate appointed by the SS men in charge to head a Kommando (work gang) made up of prisoners)
  • Laqueur, W. The Holocaust encyc., 2001(Kapo; head of a unit in a concentration camp)