Ka-tzetnik
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Ka-tzetnik (KZ-nik, Kazetnik, Katsetnik) is a Yiddish word for an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp. The word is 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".
One Holocaust survivor, writer-historian Yehiel De-Nur, wrote his books under the identity Ka-Tzetnik 135633; 135633 was his Nazi camp designation. His work chronicles the time he spent in Auschwitz.
