The conviction of a former Nazi concentration camp typist dubbed the “Secretary of Evil” was a more hollow victory than a Hanukkah miracle for New York and New Jersey Holocaust survivors.
of a former Nazi concentration camp typist dubbed the “Secretary of Evil” was a more hollow victory than a Hanukkah miracle for 95-year-old Aron Krell.
Furchner, tried in a special juvenile court because she was a teenager working at the camp from 1943-45, was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison term for aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people as secretary to Stutthof’s commandant, Paul-Werner Hoppe. A self-described “optimist,” Krell called Furchner’s conviction “…empty. It doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.” Having lost scores of aunts, uncles, and cousins, Krell said by the time his camp was liberated, “I was 17 and all alone in the world.”before the start of her trial in 2021, denied knowing about the atrocities at the camp.POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Krell called Furchner’s conviction “…empty. It doesn’t amount to a hill of beans,” after losing scores of aunts, uncles, and cousins.“[Furchner] lived a long, happy life in Germany. She was allowed to forget. Now at the end of her life, she understood what she was a part of,” Shindelman said.
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