A 97-year-old woman has appealed her case after she was found to have been an accessory in the murder of 10,500 prisoners at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

On December 20, 2022, the Itzehoe Regional Court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein sentenced 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk ...

More than 65,000 people — including 28,000 Jews — died at Stutthof between 1939 and 1945. Others killed included non-Jewish Polish people and captured soldiers from the Soviet Union. CHRISTIAN ...

A 97-year-old woman was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp during WWII.

Former Stutthof concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner, 97, found guilty by German court of complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people; gets two-year suspended sentence ...

Irmgard Furchner, a stenographer and typist to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, was accused of being a key member of a death camp that murdered 10,505 ...

A former Nazi concentration camp typist known as the “Secretary of Evil” has been convicted by a German court for her role in more than 10,000 murders during the Holocaust.

Stutthof concentration camp accommodated more than 110,000 prisoners until it was liberated by the Red Army in May 1945. Between 63,000 and 65,000 prisoners - of which 28,000 were Jews ...

A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis ...

Ms. Furchner — her name was Irmgard Dirksen at the time — first reported for work at the Stutthof camp, about 20 miles from Danzig (now ... she typed deportation lists and execution orders.

Ms. Furchner, then unmarried and known by her maiden name, Irmgard Dirksen, was 18 when she reported for work in June 1943 as a secretary to Paul Werner Hoppe, the commandant of Stutthof, a ...

Item 1 of 10 Defendant Irmgard F., a former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp attends her trial in a courtroom in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022.