"For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless, said Christoph Heubner, an executive vice-president of the committee. Their history and the suffering of all those persecuted and murdered by the Nazis is being exploited for commercial gain. The committee said the names of individuals were identifiable in many of the documents. Heubner said such documents belonged to the families of the victims."
"They should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities, he said. We urge those responsible at the Felzmann auction house to show some basic decency and cancel the auction. A listing visible on the Felzmann website on Sunday morning was no longer there by mid-afternoon. The company did not respond to requests for comment."
A survivors' group formed by Auschwitz survivors, the International Auschwitz Committee, urged the Felzmann auction house to cancel a sale of more than 600 Holocaust artefacts. The collection includes prisoner letters, Gestapo index cards and perpetrator documents that identify many individuals by name. Committee leaders called the sale cynical and shameless and said the items exploit the history and suffering of Nazi victims for commercial gain. The committee said many documents belong to victims' families and should be displayed in museums or memorials rather than sold. A Felzmann listing was removed and the company did not respond to requests for comment.
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