Tuesday, the trial of a 96-year-old woman began in Germany on charges of assisting the murder of prisoners during the Nazi era, according to Al Hurra, citing CNN.

According to Reuters, she was on the run for several hours but was caught and taken to court on charges of committing war crimes during WWII.

The woman, named ‘Irmgard Furchner’ by German media, is accused of being involved in the murder of more than 11,000 people, when she was 18 years old and working as a secretary to the SS chief at Stutthof in Nazi-controlled Poland at the time.

The accused allegedly aided concentration camp officials in the systematic killing of prisoners between June 1943 and April 1945, according to the indictment issued by the court.

The Central Office in Ludwigsburg, which is responsible for investigating Nazi crimes, said that about 65,000 people died in the Stutthof concentration camp and its sub-camps.

Because the 96-year-old woman was a teenager at the time of the alleged crimes, Furchner is facing trial before the Juvenile Court Chamber.

She is the first woman to be prosecuted in decades for alleged crimes committed during the Nazi era, according to reports.

“Although prosecutors convicted major perpetrators - those who issued orders or pulled triggers - in the 1960s "Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials", the practice until the 2000s was to leave lower-level suspects alone,” reported Reuters.

In July 2020, the Hamburg Regional Court sentenced Bruno D., a former Stutthof camp guard, to two years in prison.

The 93-year-old former guard supervised prisoners in the concentration camp from August 1944 to April 1945 and was charged with 5,230 counts of complicity in murder during his time as a guard at the camp, where he also faced juvenile court because he was 17 years old while serving in the Nazi camp.