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A 96-year-old woman set to face a trial for her alleged involvement in over 11,000 murders during the Holocaust is now on the run, multiple outlets report.
Irmgard Furchner was a typist at Nazi-occupied Poland’s Stutthof concentration camp from 1943 and 1945 as a teenager during World War II, according toReuters, and she is charged with aiding and abetting mass murder, believed to have connections to 11,412 deaths.
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According toThe Guardian, prosecutors allege that Furchner, as a secretary and stenographer for the commander of the concentration camp, “assisted those responsible at the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war.”
Prior to Furchner disappearing ahead of trial, her attorney told German magazineDer Spiegel, per The Guardian, that it’s unclear whether she was aware what was happening at the camp. Her attorney explained a desire to want the trial to have a “dignified treatment of victims and their families.”
Six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. In addition to Jews, Nazis targeted and killed members of other groups too, including Gypsies (also known as the Roma), people with disabilities, gay people and Soviet and non-Jewish Polish civilians.
source: people.com
