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Shortly after the war, Holocaust sur- vivors created their own "courts of honor" in displaced persons camps. They rendered verdicts on kapos, Jewish police chiefs and members of the Jewish councils, the Juden- rat . The guilty were shunned and sometimes excommunicated. But some kapos, killed by Jews im- mediately before or just after their libera- tion, never made it to these "courts of honor." The kapo in Goerlitz's Bloc No. 4, for instance, was "more brutal" than Jacob Tannenbaum, according to Goerlitz survi- vor, Leon Hostig. Some survivors from Goerlitz, said Hostig, killed this kapo in Lodz. "I would have killed him also if I had been there," said Hostig, who blames the kapo for the death of his brother, Joel, then 24. As Soviet troops approached Goerlitz in the spring of 1945, some kapos at the camp had the inmates, including Hostig, march westward toward the American army. Hostig's brother wasn't allowed to come because he was too weak. "I begged the kapo [from Bloc No. 4] to let him come with us," said Hostig. "He said Joel had lived too long." Hostig and other prisoners returned to Goerlitz when the Soviets briefly pulled their forces back. "I couldn't find my brother," said Hostig. "Finally, one prisoner said, 'I'll tell you the truth. He's over there,' pointing to the morgue. The kapo in No. 4 wouldn't let him into the bar- racks. He froze to death." Raul Hilberg of the University of Ver- mont, perhaps the preeminent historian on the Holocaust, estimated there were "thousands, perhaps tens of thousands" of kapos. A minority of these were Jews; an even smaller minority were prosecuted by authorities or killed by inmates after the war. Just two weeks ago, for instance, Goerlitz survivor Aaron Miller saw a former kapo from Goerlitz, now an Or- thodox Jew, in Brooklyn. Miller said the man once beat him when he didn't hear him yelling at him to bury the dead. The 76-year-old. Chasidic cantor does not plan to report the kapo to authorities. "How can these people sleep?" he said. "Maybe they are their own punishment. Let God upstairs take care of him." 0 —A.J.M. Are There Kapos In Detroit? Staff Report Survivors of the Holocaust in the Detroit Jewish community believe there are no kapos — in- mate guards used by the Nazis — among their ranks. Long- time leaders of the survivors organization Shaarit Haplaytah and the Holocaust Memorial Center told The Jewish News that they knew of no formal. charges being brought against any member of the Jewish community. But Abraham Weberman, current president of Shaarit Haplaytah, knows of at least two men that he believes were forced by the Nazis to work as inmate guards. "When I came to Detroit in 1960, I heard a few stories," Weberman said. "I was told these people came in 1951 or 1952." Weberman said the peo- ple in question have never been charged with crimes, and he refused to divulge their names. "One man is sick and has a wife and children. There is nothing to be gained now." He added that just because someone was a kapo does not mean that they were "a bad kapo. Sometimes the Jewish kapos were forced to hit so- meone, but it was better that the kapos did the hitting than- the SS." Dr. John Mames, former president of Shaarit Haplaytah, and long- time Shaarit Haplaytah officer Sonia Popowski both said they hadno knowledge of kapos within the 2,000-family survivor com- munity in Detroit. Dr. Mames' wife, Eva, was a Hungarian Jew who was at the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps. "By 1944 when I was at Auschwitz," she said, "most of the kapos were Polish, not Jews. And the few Jewish kapos were not bad." Mrs. Mames and Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center, both said that when so- meone in the survivor com- munity is not liked, he or she will often be labeled "a kapo." "But I have never heard any formal allegations against anyone here by any competent agency," Dr. Rosenzveig said. And he repeated that just because someone was a kapo does not mean that the person committed crimes. Barbie Trial Concluding Lyon (JTA) — The trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Bar- bie entered its final phase last week with the beginning of summations by lawyers repre- senting surviving victims of the former Lyon Gestapo chief and the families of those who did not survive. The first to address the jury was Serge Klarsfeld, who with his German-born wife, Beate, has devoted years to tracking down Nazi war criminals. Klarsfeld is representing sur- viving relatives of 44 Jewish children arrested by German soldiers at the children's shelter in the village of Izieu on April 6, 1944 and deported to Au- schwitz, where all perished. In all, 39 lawyers will argue why Barbie should be given the maximum sentence allowed by French law — life imprison- ment. But the question of whether Barbie will be brought to justice may hang on the out- come of a cunning legal maneu- ver by his attorney, Jacques Verges. Verges petitioned the court to free Barbie whether or not he is found guilty of crimes against humanity. He cited Wench law, which requires that a defendant found guilty of crimes during the same period .