Organized Jewry Digging Its Own Grave: Woman, 91, faces 260,000 counts for Auschwitz role

She was a radio operator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944.

By Ed Adamczyk     |   Sept. 22, 2015 at 2:23 PM

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A visitor tours an exhibit depicting the main gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. A 91-year-old woman was charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder for her role as a radio operator in the camp. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI 

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KIEL , Germany, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- German prosecutors charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder for her alleged World War II role at a Nazi death camp.

Prosecutors accused the unidentified woman of being a member of the SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party, and a radio operator for several months in 1944 for the camp commandant of the Auschwitz, Poland, concentration camp. They argue she can be charged because she facilitated in the deaths of inmates at the camp. Her trial, in the city of Kiel, is likely to begin next year.

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