He also spoke about his mother being stripped of her clothes and possessions by the Nazis and how they shaved her head. Salomonovic told the court he survived eight concentration camps, including Auschwitz, but judged Stutthof to be the worst.

“I was classified as a parasite,” he said. “Everyone who couldn’t work was a parasite. I got into the cattle wagon and of course I didn’t know we were going to Auschwitz or that this was the last time I would see my father. He kissed me.”

Salomonovic said his mother requested that he be brought from the men’s camp to the women’s camp so they would be reunited, and they were surprised when his brother was also brought. The three of them managed to survive together.

A total of 65,000 people were murdered in the Stutthof camp, according to Yad Vashem.

Furchner has claimed she knew nothing about the mass murders taking place inside the Nazi concentration camp, but Salomonovic argued to reporters on Tuesday that she is indirectly guilty — even if all she did was to stamp his father’s death certificate.

The first woman in decades to be tried for crimes committed by the Nazis, the former typist went on the run ahead of her court hearing in September and was declared a fugitive before she was arrested.