Kapo (2002)

Name: Kapo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-04-15T10:53:59+02:00
Cast: Malcolm Penny

Documentary | 55 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 55 minuten

Country: Israel

Directed by: Tor Ben-Mayor and Dan Setton

Stars: Malcolm Penny

IMDb score: 8,4 (23)

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Kapo plot

The word "kapo" comes from Italian and means head, or leader. In the Second World War it was used for the Jews who were assigned a special function in the ghetto or in the concentration camps by the German occupiers. The explanation for their collaboration is suggested that they had no choice; to refuse the position would mean certain death. Now, so many years after the war, the former collaborators live in constant fear. Their true identities can be discovered at any moment, if they are recognized on the street or in the bus by one of their victims. In this film, some of them are interviewed, as well as the people who had them persecuted after the war. Their story forms a painful chapter in Jewish history, which has hardly been made public until now.