Why ‘kapo’ should never be used as a political insult against other Jews
A prosecution witness points out defendant Emil Erwin Mahl during the Dachau war crimes trial in late 1945. Mahl was convicted of war crimes he committed as a kapo, including obeying SS officers and tying nooses around prisoners’ necks. (Photo © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
(RNS) — To use a word soaked in the blood and suffering of our martyrs and then to Velcro it onto a living Jew, whose worst crime is disagreeing with you, is not argument. It is moral violence.
