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Etymology

From Yiddish, (KZ-nik, Kazetnik, Katsetnik, ק. צטניק) (Yiddish for inmate of a web FITML); derived from the abbreviation KZ (pronounced as Kah-Tzet) for the German word Konzentrationslager by the addition of the suffix -nik of Slavic origin, which approximately corresponds to the English suffix "-er".

Noun

ka-tzetnik

  1. An inmate of a Nazi concentration camp.

Usage notes

One Holocaust survivor, writer-historian Yehiel De-Nur, wrote his books under the identity Ka-Tzetnik 135633; documenting the time he spent in Auschwitz.


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