As family secrets go, this one’s complex.
Still, Charles’ letter to Henri, my grandfather, is a rare first-person account of being a kapo. Because of the negative connotation the termwould acquire, most survivors who had similar experiences chose not to record their experiences in text or video. In the thousands of hours of video testimonies preserved at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Yale’s Fortunoff Archive, many witnesses talk about other prisoners who were kapos, but there are no testimonies by former kapos themselves.
I arrived on June 30th at the famous concentration camp of Auschwitz. The reception was one of the warmest. After being fleeced of everything I had brought: clothes, food, luggage, and even my hair, I was given a beautiful tattoo on my left arm . Then the lager kapo [“camp kapo,” or a non-Jewish prisoner who was in charge of the camp], finding me particularly sympathetic, beat me up in a perfectly proper manner.
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