An elderly German man recently indicted on mass murder charges for his time spent at Auschwitz in WW2 was on duty when Jewish diarist Anne Frank arrived . Hubert Zafke , now 94 , was present when Anne came in on a train carrying 498 men , 442 women and 79 children from Holland 's Westerbork concentration camp on September 5 , 1944 , prosecution documents released at the weekend show . Anne , whose memoir of a life in hiding from the Nazis became the single most poignant piece of Holocaust literature , was later transferred to the Belsen concentration camp in Germany where she died early in 1945 . Only her father would survive the war . Hubert Zafke , now 94 , is charged in the complicity of 3,681 murders . He was on duty when Jewish diarist Anne Frank arrived at Auschwitz ( above ) Zafke is now charged in the complicity of 3,681 murders - victims who were gassed or shot when he was on duty . Although classed as a medic , such personnel at Auschwitz were not concerned with the health of inmates , but often poured Zyklon-B pesticide crystals into the gas chamber to murder them . More than 1.1 million people , mostly Jews , were liquidated at Auschwitz . The indictment shows that Zafke , who now lives in the tiny village of Gnevkow north of Berlin , joined the Hitler Youth when he was a teenager in his hometown of Schoenau , which now lies in Poland . The son of a farmer , he attended high school and an agricultural college intending to follow in his father 's footsteps . In 1933 , aged 13 , he joined the Hitler Youth and six years later was in the SS . He received his grounding in concentration camp training at Dachau , the first of the Nazi camps where 36,000 people were murdered during its 12-year operation . As a junior squad leader - a rank usually given to men singled out as future officer material - Zafke transferred to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 . He is charged with being an accomplice to the murders of the 3,681 victims between August 14 and September 14 , 1944 . Prosecutors said : 'He is not charged with any single specific murder but as a functionary in the Nazi murder machine which he enabled . ' Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army on January 27 , 1945 , now World Holocaust Day , but Zafke had already gone west and fell into British hands . Anne ( above ) came in on a train carrying 498 men , 442 women and 79 children from Holland 's Westerbork concentration camp on September 5 , 1944 , prosecution documents released at the weekend show . Prosecutors said Zafke , who transferred to Auschwitz ( above ) in the summer of 1944 , 'is not charged with any single specific murder but as a functionary in the Nazi murder machine which he enabled ' He was later transferred back to Poland where he was given a three year jail sentence in 1948 for his membership in the SS and service at Auschwitz . He returned to Germany , married and had four sons who be brought up in Gnevkow . He made a career out of manufacturing and selling agricultural products including pesticides . Gnevkow lay in former East Germany . When the wall fell and archives in Poland , East Germany and former Soviet Russia became accessible , he came on to the radar of Nazi hunters . The verdict against John Demnjanjuk , a former guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland , in 2011 paved the way for Zafke 's prosecution . Demjanjuk was sentenced to five years in jail for his part in the murders of 28,000 Dutch Jews . It was the first time that there was not specific eyewitness evidence against an individual - the mere fact he was present in the camp was enough for a guilty verdict . Anne , whose memoir of a life in hiding from the Nazis became the single most poignant piece of Holocaust literature , was later transferred to the Belsen concentration camp in Germany where she died early in 1945 . Zafke does not deny his service at Auschwitz but claims : ' I heard nothing , saw nothing , killed no-one . ' Although he lives alone and cares for himself , his lawyer has already filed a motion seeking to have the charges dropped , claiming he is suffering from dementia . Christoph Heubner , executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee , said : 'For the survivors of Auschwitz this is all about justice , not revenge . Justice has had to wait decades . ' He added : 'Those perpetrators who ensured , as members of the SS , that the Auschwitz-Birkenau death factory worked smoothly , and that the Jewish families of Europe disappeared into the gas chambers , have developed no sense of awareness of wrongdoing over the years . 'Therefore these legal processes are first and foremost an inquiry to the Germans - who actually owns your compassion ? '
Hubert Zafke was on duty when the train arrived on September 5 , 1944 . Joined the Hitler Youth as a teenager before becoming junior squad leader . Father-of-four accused of helping to gas or shoot victims while on duty . Anne was later transferred to Belsen concentration camp and died in 1945 .