A pipel or piepel was in the terminology of the Lager a child, often old of less than 15 years, intended to satisfy the sexual needs for the Kapo S.

Elie Wiesel, arriving at Buna, notices that the children of its convoy, old from 10 to 12 years, receive a supplement of food. “Actually”, he explains, “this affection was not involved: the children were the object here, between homosexual, of a true draft.”