CNN —
A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted for her role in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust in what could be the last trial of its kind.
Irmgard Furchner worked from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945 as a stenographer and typist in the Stutthof camp near Danzig in Poland occupied by the Nazis.
She was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the court in Itzehoe, northern Germany.
Because Furchner was a juvenile at the time of the crimes, the 97-year-old’s trial was held in a juvenile court and her sentence includes juvenile probation, the court confirmed to CNN.
Furchner went on the run weeks before her trial began, but was found by authorities several hours later. The process finally began late last year.
Tens of thousands of people were held at Stutthof camp in brutal conditions, and more than 60,000 died there, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Stutthof kept mainly non-Jewish Poles, according to the museum, as well as large numbers of Jews from the Polish cities of Warsaw and Bialystok and from the Nazi-occupied Baltic states.
Germany has been striving in recent years to bring the perpetrators of Nazi war crimes to justice before it is too late. Experts say, however, that only a small proportion of those involved have ever stood trial.