Germany’s Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in Itzehoe in northern Germany.

She had been accused of being part of the system that helped the camp, which was near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdańsk, operate.

In five cases she was convicted of being an accessory to attempted murder.

Judges at the Itzehoe court stated that she was aware of what was happening through her work as a stenographer in the commandant’s office, which “deliberately supported the fact that 10,505 prisoners were cruelly killed by gassings, by hostile conditions in the camp” and by transportation to the Auschwitz death camp.

Furchner was tried in a juvenile court as she was 18 and 19 at the time of the crimes.

There are another three such cases pending in Germany but, as the suspects are very old, it is unclear whether all three will be fit to stand trial.