Auction of Holocaust-related items cancelled after outcry
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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced that the auction of Holocaust-related items has been cancelled.
The planned auction was linked to the Felzmann auction house in Germany.
“I spoke with the German Foreign Minister @JoWadephul regarding the planned auction in Neuss of items from the time of German terror during the Second World War. We agreed that such a scandal must be prevented,” Sikorski said in a Polish post about X, according to the translation. he said.
“Thank you minister @JoWadephul for the information that the offensive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been cancelled. Respect for the victims requires the dignity of silence, not the noise of commerce,” he said in an English-language post.
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There had been objections to the auction plan.
For example, the Fritz Bauer Institute strongly opposed the Holocaust-related auction in a press release.
“The Fritz Bauer Institute protests the planned auction by the Felzmann auction house and is fundamentally opposed to the commercial dealing of documents related to Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. No business should be done with such documents,” a German-language press release said, according to translation.
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“For the victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless attempt that has left them outraged and speechless,” Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee said in a statement, according to the AP. he said. “We call on those responsible at the Felzmann auction house to show some courtesy and cancel the auction,” he said in a statement, according to the media outlet.
