Avishay Artsy

There’s a four-letter word that a Jew might use to call another Jew a traitor, in the harshest way possible: kapo.

During the Holocaust, Nazis put a small minority of Jews in charge of carrying out their orders. After the war, some of those Jews were accused of abusing their positions. Holocaust survivors sought vengeance against kapos, and tried them in specially-created Jewish honor courts in Europe and state courts in Israel. Read more here.