What is a pipel?
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What is a pipel?
Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps
As referenced in Elie Wiesel's Night, there were certain Jewish prisoners who collaborated with the Nazi soldiers in the concentration camps. The Kapo and Sonderkommando administered the ghettos and prisons, often with brutality against their fellow Jews.
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A pipel was a young boy who received special privileges by serving, sometimes in a sexual manner, an adult Jewish collaborator in a Nazi concentration camp, such as a Kapo or Sonderkommando. The term is referenced in Elie Wiesel's Night, an autobiography of his experience in a concentration camp.
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