German prosecutors say the woman, who has not been named, was a member of the Nazi SS and worked as a radio operator at the complex in 1944. There are no indications that the woman is unfit to stand trial, according to the prosecutors.
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A decision on whether to proceed with the prosecution against the charged woman will be made next year. The court in the German city of Kiel will also take her health into consideration, the Guardian reports.
Auschwitz in occupied Poland, was a network of concentration and extermination camps during the Second World War.
Some 1.1 million people, a lot of them European Jews, perished between 1940 and 1945 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp before it was liberated by Soviet forces.
This isn’t the first instance of prosecutions of those not directly involved in the era’s violence.
A 91-year-old woman has been charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over claims she worked at the Auschwitz death camp.
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Called the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, he was responsible for collecting money found in prisoners’ clothing and luggage.
