Itzehoe state court in northern Germany said on Wednesday that both the defence for Irmgard Furchner and a lawyer for a co-plaintiff filed appeals to the Federal Court of Justice.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Starving prisoners forced to eat each other to survive and sadistic torture shows . These are the details of what life was like at the Nazi Stutthof camp.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman to be tried in Germany for Nazi-era crimes in decades in what prosecutors have said could be one of the country s last trials over Holocaust crimes.
The shocking testimony came in the ongoing trial of 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.