Kapo
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A kapo was a type of prisoner functionary at Nazi concentration and extermination camps. They were, whether voluntary or coerced, collaborators who worked under the Schutzstaffel to carry out administ
Carmen Mory, Swiss Nazi German spy and kapo in Ravensbrück
Josef Kilian, kapo and defendant in the Dora trial
Jewish Ghetto Police
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The Jewish Police Service, commonly known as Jewish Ghetto Police, also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat.
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…in 1963 drove this point home. Barenblat, conductor of the Israel National Opera, was tried for having turned Jews over to the Nazis as head of the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Bendzin ghetto in Poland. Having arrived in Israel in 1958–9, Barenblat was arrested after a ghetto survivor recognised him while he was conducting…
Jewish policemen in the Łódź Ghetto 1940
Jewish policemen in Węgrów Ghetto, Poland
Jewish Ghetto Police in the Warsaw Ghetto, May 1941
Armband worn by the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Warsaw Ghetto.