A Holocaust-era ‘Kapo’ leader armband, worn by a Jewish inmate tasked with administrative functions. (Public domain)
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Article/book #: 311433
Title: The Nazi collaborator who served ice cream in Tel Aviv
By: Ofer Aderet
Published in: Ha’aretz
Date of issue: Saturday, 19 December 2015
People/entities mentioned in this item:
- Mordechai Goldstein
- Reya Hanes
- Yaakov Honigman
- Yechezkel Ingster
- Itamar Levin
- Moshe Pochich
- Elsa Trank
The Nazi Collaborator Who Served Ice Cream in Tel Aviv
Dozens of Jews were arrested in Israel in the 1950s and faced charges of collaborating with the Nazis during the war. A new book details their extraordinary trials.
Ofer Aderet Dec 20, 2015 12:26 PM
The historical episode in which Jews were put on trial in Israel for aiding the Nazis – the subject of a new book by Holocaust scholar Itamar Levin, called Kapo on Allenby – took place in the 1950s, between… (The rest of the text is accessible via subscription)
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