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, to a suspended juvenile sentence of two years for aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,500 cases.
Itzehoe state court in northern Germany said on Wednesday that both the defence for Irmgard Furchner and a lawyer for a co-plaintiff filed appeals to the Federal Court of Justice.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Starving prisoners forced to eat each other to survive and sadistic torture shows . These are the details of what life was like at the Nazi Stutthof camp.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman to be tried in Germany for Nazi-era crimes in decades in what prosecutors have said could be one of the country s last trials over Holocaust crimes.
The shocking testimony came in the ongoing trial of 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.