Definition of "kapos" []

• Plural form of kapo. (noun)

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• "Their silent, dignified march was greeted by members of StandWithUs/SF Voice for Israel and other affiliates who called them "kapos" (concentration camp prisoners who carried out Nazi orders on other prisoners) and suggested that Israel should "sink the next flotilla with you on it.""
• "Their silent, dignified march was greeted by members of StandWithUs and other affiliates who called them "kapos" (concentration camp prisoners who carried out Nazi orders on other prisoners) and suggested that Israel should "sink the next flotilla with you on it.""
• "Busch also said that the so-called Trawnikis - many of them Soviet POWs trained by the SS - were just as much victims as Jews who were forced to work for the Nazis in concentration camps, whether as "kapos" (controlling barracks) or as "sonderkommandos," hauling bodies of gassed Jews to be burned in crematoriums."