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Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)
April 8, 2025, 5:47 am
Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict Irmgard Furchner dies at 99
The former Nazi secretary was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in Poland
By AFP and ToI Staff
Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor, is interviewed in London, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 26, 2025, 4:13 pm
Manfred Goldberg remembers the ‘angel who was sent to save me’ in a Nazi labor camp
‘I never saw him again,’ says the 94-year-old, German-born Holocaust survivor of the man who advised him to lie about his age, sparing him the fate of his younger brother Herman
By DANICA KIRKA
Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)
August 21, 2024, 5:13 am
Germany upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Central Council of Jews hails rejection of appeal by woman who served under commander of Stutthof camp, says she must ‘answer for her actions’
By Toby Axelrod
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
December 28, 2022, 2:18 pm
Former Nazi camp secretary, 97, appeals her conviction
Irmgard Furchner contests 2-year suspended sentence for complicity in the ‘cruel and malicious murder’ of more than 10,000 prisoners at Stutthof camp in occupied Poland
By AFP
Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)
December 20, 2022, 12:10 pm
Ex-concentration camp secretary convicted in potentially last ever Holocaust trial
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
By Céline LE PRIOUX
Defendant Irmgard Furchner sits in the courtroom at the beginning of her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, November 9, 2021. (Christian Charisius/Pool via AP)
December 6, 2022, 7:36 pm
Ex-secretary at Nazi concentration camp says she’s ‘sorry,’ requests trial acquittal
Irmgard Furchner, 97, is being tried at German juvenile court for her role in assisting the SS commander of Stutthof concentration camp while she was a teen
By Agencies
Defendant Irmgard Furchner sits in the courtroom at the beginning of her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, November 9, 2021. (Christian Charisius/Pool via AP)
November 22, 2022, 9:41 pm
German prosecutors seek suspended sentence for ex-Nazi camp secretary, 97, at trial
Prosecutor calls for Irmgard Furchner to get 2-year suspended term as accessory to murder, arguing she must have been aware of mass killings at Stutthof concentration camp
By AP
The 96-year-old defendant Irmgard F. sits in an ambulance chair behind a plexiglass screen in a courtroom in Itzehoe, Germany, Oct. 19, 2021 (Christian Charisius/DPA via AP, Pool)
October 19, 2021, 3:17 pm
Prosecution at trial of Nazi camp secretary: Gas chamber cries ‘clearly audible’
Indictment against Irmgard Furchner, 96, who absconded last month, says all in Stutthof heard victims suffer; says defendant’s work gave her ‘knowledge of all occurrences, events’
By Sebastian Bronst
The wooden main gate leading into the former Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof, photographed in Sztutowo, Poland, July 18, 2017. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
October 19, 2021, 8:02 am
Ex-Nazi death camp secretary, 96, who fled trial, to finally face court
Irmgard Furchner, accused of complicity in murder of 10,000 people, absconded hearing last month, triggering a manhunt of several hours until she was caught
By Sebastien ASH
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
October 5, 2021, 4:44 pm
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, released from custody after fleeing trial
Irmgard Furchner allowed to return to her retirement home ahead of fresh hearing on charges of complicity in murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp
By Yannick Pasquet
99-year-old Holocaust survivor Yehudit (Dita) Sperling, who has given evidence in the case against Stutthof concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner. This picture of Sperling has been widely misused as purportedly showing Furchner (Courtesy)
October 2, 2021, 5:32 am
Survivor’s photo wrongly used as pic of the Nazi suspect she testified against
Numerous outlets publish picture of Dita Sperling, erroneously identifying her as Irmgard Furchner; in fact Sperling, 99, has testified in the case against ex-death camp secretary
By ToI Staff and AFP
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
October 1, 2021, 6:39 am
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, remanded in custody after going on the run
Court orders Irmgard Furchner be held pending resumption of trial on October 19, after she left her retirement home near Hamburg and took cab to subway station, instead of hearing
By Yannick Pasquet
Illustrative -- The chairman judge Dominik Gross, third from right, arrives with the judge for a trial against a 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration at the Landgericht Itzehoe court in Itzehoe, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
September 30, 2021, 4:37 pm
96-year-old former Nazi camp secretary caught after skipping trial
Police apprehend Irmgard Furchner hours after she was declared a fugitive by court; Nazi-hunter: ‘If she is healthy enough to flee, she is healthy enough to be incarcerated’
By MARKUS SCHREIBER and Kirsten Grieshaber
A judicial officer in the courtroom prior to the trial of Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
September 30, 2021, 1:35 pm
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, skips trial opening, is declared fugitive
Arrest warrant issued after Irmgard Furchner absconds; defendant charged with complicity in the murders of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland
By Yannick Pasquet
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