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Global backlash forces cancelation of auction holocaust-era items
(MENAFN) A wave of international criticism has compelled a German auction house to withdraw plans to sell a large collection of artifacts linked to Nazi concentration camps.
The Felzmann Auction House had prepared to put 623 objects dating from 1933 to 1945 up for bidding on Monday under a catalog titled System of Terror Vol. II. According to reports, the collection featured items such as prisoner correspondence, a 1937 medical document detailing forced sterilizations at Dachau, and a Gestapo dossier describing the execution of a Jewish man in the Mackeim ghetto in July 1942. Also included were an anti-Semitic propaganda poster and Star of David patches and armbands originating from the Buchenwald camp.
The proposed sale quickly ignited outrage both within Germany and abroad. A senior representative of the International Auschwitz Committee, Christoph Huebner, denounced the auction as “cynical and shameless,” stressing that Holocaust-related records “should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade.”
A German research institution that focuses on Holocaust history also condemned the event, stating that the planned sale “reflects a disregard for the personal rights of the victims and the legitimate interests of their descendants.”
According to officials, pressure from abroad contributed to halting the sale. Poland’s foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said Warsaw had urged authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia to intervene. On Sunday, he publicly thanked his German counterpart for confirming that the “offensive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been canceled.”
The Felzmann Auction House had prepared to put 623 objects dating from 1933 to 1945 up for bidding on Monday under a catalog titled System of Terror Vol. II. According to reports, the collection featured items such as prisoner correspondence, a 1937 medical document detailing forced sterilizations at Dachau, and a Gestapo dossier describing the execution of a Jewish man in the Mackeim ghetto in July 1942. Also included were an anti-Semitic propaganda poster and Star of David patches and armbands originating from the Buchenwald camp.
The proposed sale quickly ignited outrage both within Germany and abroad. A senior representative of the International Auschwitz Committee, Christoph Huebner, denounced the auction as “cynical and shameless,” stressing that Holocaust-related records “should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade.”
A German research institution that focuses on Holocaust history also condemned the event, stating that the planned sale “reflects a disregard for the personal rights of the victims and the legitimate interests of their descendants.”
According to officials, pressure from abroad contributed to halting the sale. Poland’s foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said Warsaw had urged authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia to intervene. On Sunday, he publicly thanked his German counterpart for confirming that the “offensive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been canceled.”
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