A kapo was a privileged prisoner who served as a barracks supervisor/warder or led work details in a Nazi concentration camp.

Kapo or KAPO may also refer to one of the following:

Culture

  • Kapo (mythology), a Hawaiian goddess or god
  • Kapo (1960 film), an Italian film about the Holocaust
  • Kapo (2000 film), an Israeli documentary about Jewish kapos who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II
  • Kapo!, a studio album by the neo-folk band Death In June
  • Kapo, a novel by Serbian novelist Aleksandar Tišma

Organisations

  • Kazan Aircraft Production Association, a Russian aircraft manufacturer
  • KAPO or KaPo, an acronym for Kaitsepolitsei, the state security agency of Estonia
  • KAPO, an acronym for ', Swiss cantonal police

People

  • Kapo (singer) (born 1997), Colombian singer
  • Aurora Kapo (born 2000), Albanian singer
  • Hysni Kapo (1915–1979), Albanian military commander and leading member of the Party of Labour of Albania
  • Maxen Kapo (born 2001), French professional footballer
  • Olivier Kapo (born 1980), retired French footballer
  • Vito Kapo (1922–2020), Albanian politician
  • Mallica Reynolds (1911–1989), Jamaican artist that went by the name Kapo

See also

  • Capo (disambiguation)
  • Kapow (disambiguation)