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Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday (local time) while protesting the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, the Nation reports.
Epstein, who aided Allied forces during the Nuremberg trials in 1945, was arrested with seven others for blocking the entrance of a state office building.
The group had been demanding Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to withdraw his decision to call in reserve military units to quell escalating protests in the town over the death of Michael Brown.
"I've been doing this since I was a teenager. I didn't think I would have to do it when I was ninety," Epstein told the Nation during her arrest.
"We need to stand up today so that people won't have to do this when they're ninety."
Epstein is also an activist and vocal supporter of the Free Gaza Movement.
Tensions rose in Ferguson after Nixon announced that the National Guard had been called in to help run the command center while police handled the protests.
An independent autopsy has found Brown, 18, was shot by a Ferguson police officer six times, including twice in the head.
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