BERLIN — Former SS sergeant Adolf Storms lived in Germany unnoticed for more than six decades after World War II until an Austrian university student last year came across his name while researching a 1945 massacre of Jewish forced laborers.

The student gave the information to state prosecutors near Storms’ hometown of Duisburg, and they have now filed charges against the 90-year-old on 58 counts of murder for the killings near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen, a German court said.

“On March 29, 1945, the accused and his accomplices brought at least 57 Jewish forced laborers ... to a nearby forest area,” the court said in a statement. “The accused and other SS members then cruelly shot the Jewish forced-laborers from behind.”

Storms is also accused of personally shooting another Jew the next day, the court said.