A former Nazi concentration camp secretary was accused of complicity in the murder of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.
The unidentified woman, who was a minor when she was in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp between June 1943 and April 1945, was accused of “assisting and complicity in murder in more than 10,000 cases” and complicity in attempted murder, according to CNN.
The woman “is accused of having helped those responsible in the field in the systematic murder of Russian Jewish prisoners, Polish guerrillas and Soviet prisoners of war in their role as stenographer and secretary to the camp commander,” prosecutors said in a statement, CNN reported.
She will face a juvenile court due to her status as a minor at the time of the alleged crimes.
Thirteen other cases linked to the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps are being investigated by German prosecutors.
A 93-year-old former guard of Stutthof was convicted in 2020 on thousands of charges of being an accessory to murder. He was tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 when the crimes were committed and received a suspended sentence of two years in prison, according to CNN.
During the Holocaust, about 65,000 people were murdered in the Stutthof concentration camp, located near the Polish city of Gdansk.