"cynical and shameless."
"being exploited for commercial gain."
"Documents relating to persecution and the Holocaust belong to the families of those who were persecuted,"
"They should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade."
An auction of items and documents from Holocaust victims was cancelled one day before it was scheduled after widespread international condemnation. The International Auschwitz Committee urged the Felzmann auction house not to proceed, calling the sale cynical and shameless and saying survivors' history was being exploited for commercial gain. The committee stated that documents relating to persecution belong to victims' families and should be displayed in museums or memorial sites rather than sold. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul described the planned sale as offensive and worked to prevent it. The auction catalogue included Nazi documents, forced sterilization records, company dispossession files, identification papers, passports and prisoner release forms.
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