"IAC Executive Vice President Christoph Heubner called the auction "cynical and shameless." Heubner said in a statement that the history of Holocaust survivors was "being exploited for commercial gain." "Documents relating to persecution and the Holocaust belong to the families of those who were persecuted," he said. "They should be displayed in museums or in exhibitions at memorial sites and not be degraded to objects of trade.""
"Among the various items were Nazi documents on a forced sterilization carried out at the Dachau concentration camp. The auction would have included records of companies forcefully sold to Nazis, as well as identification documents and passports of Jews who managed to flee persecution to Chile and Argentina. It featured "life saving documents" like a release form for a prisoner who was able to leave the Mauthausen concentration camp."
An auction of items and documents from Holocaust victims was cancelled a day before it was scheduled following international criticism. The International Auschwitz Committee urged the Felzmann auction house not to hold the event and described the sale as cynical and shameless. Officials warned that the history of Holocaust survivors was being exploited for commercial gain and said documents should belong to families or be displayed in museums and memorials rather than traded. Polish and German foreign ministers called the auction offensive and helped prevent it. The planned lots included Nazi-era records, forced-sterilization documents, seized-company papers, identification documents, passports and a Mauthausen release form.
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