Former female Nazi guard, 96, on the run from nursing home hours before trial over murder of 11,000 Jewish prisoners

A FORMER female Nazi guard, 96, is on the run after fleeing her nursing home just hours before she was due to go on trial accused of playing a part in the murder of more than 11,000 Jewish prisoners. Authorities in Germany issued an arrest warrant for elderly Irmgard Furchner after she failed to show up for the start of her case and was last seen leaving her care home – where she is described as ”sprightly for her age” – and boarding a subway train. EPAIrmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof camp in Poland[/caption] APThe 96-year-old failed to show up for the start of her case[/caption] Trial judge Dominic Gros announced the trial was delayed and then revealed she had gone on the run, and police were last night examining CCTV of the station to see if they could pick her up. Furchner worked at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in what is now Poland but during World War Two was occupied by the Nazis. She is currently living in a care home in Schleswig-Holstein but has been under investigation for several years and is fully aware of what is going on –with staff describing her as ”one of our most sprightly residents”. Prosecutors in Itzehoe, northern Germany, said the woman was accusedof having assisted those responsible at the concentration camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russianprisoners. Irmgard worked as a stenographer and secretary to the camp commanderPaul Werne-Hoppe between June 1943 and April 1945. Besides being charged with aiding and abetting 11,412 murders, she is also accused of complicity in 18 attempted murders. Most read in The Sun such a drag Harry 'oozed alcohol from every pore' & stank of cigarettes, TV host says RON-SIDE OR NOT? Viewers sure Lingard was offside for Ronaldo's dramatic Man Utd winner MAN UTD 2 VILLARREAL 1 Ronaldo saves Solskjaer's skin as ropey Red Devils pinch it at death TROUBLED PRICEY Katie Price had huge row with Carl Woods before horrific drink drive smash SICK PLOT Cop hatched kidnap plot weeks before Sarah's murder then tried to cover tracks great white fright Terrifying moment surfer is attacked by great white shark on live TV Due to her age at the time of the allegations, Irmgard, who lives in aretirement home in Pinneburg, near Hamburg, will appear before a juvenile court. Prosecutors began their investigation in 2016 and have questionedHolocaust survivors in Israel and the US as part of their probe. Documents are said to have been seized from her room at the care homeand she has admitted working at the camp where more than 65,000 peopledied. At the end of World War Two, Irmgard was questioned by Alliedinvestigators about Hoppe and described him as a ”conscientiousworker” but she had no knowledge of any deaths at the camp. Hoppe fled to Switzerland in 1945 and worked as a gardener under a newidentity but was eventually arrested in 1953 and later tried as anaccessory to murder. He was given nine years and died in 1974 aged 64. Lawyer Onur Özata, who represents two co-plaintiffs and Stutthof survivors in the proceedings, has called on authorities to catch Irmgard. He told BILD: “The accused is fooling the judiciary with her behavior.  “Apparently she does not feel bound by the local law. The law enforcement authorities must now do everything possible to get hold of the concentration camp secretary.  “Anything else would be unbearable for the survivors. “