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A former stenographer and typist at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted for her role in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust. Irmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. Furchner's trial, the final of its kind, happened at the court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, where she was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence on Tuesday, reported CNN.  However, Furchner was tried before a juvenile court as she was an adolescent, below 21, at the time of the crime. Her sentence will also see her placed on juvenile probation. According to a court indictment, she was an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 cases. She was convicted of assisting those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of prisoners between June 1943 and April 1945, according to a court indictment. Interestingly, Furchner was found absconding for several hours before the trial