{"id":574562,"date":"2025-11-16T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:53:12","slug":"german-auction-house-urged-to-cancel-sale-of-holocaust-artefacts-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574562\/","title":{"rendered":"German auction house urged to cancel sale of Holocaust artefacts | Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A group formed by survivors of the Auschwitz death camp is calling on a German auction house to cancel a sale of hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/holocaust\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holocaust<\/a> artefacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that identify many people by name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The International Auschwitz Committee, a Berlin-based organisation, called the \u201ccynical and shameless\u201d sale with a title of the System of Terror to be stopped. The sale is scheduled to be held on Monday by the Felzmann auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The collection of more than 600 lots at auction in Neuss, near D\u00fcsseldorf, includes letters written by concentration camp prisoners to loved ones at home, Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, the German news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cFor victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless,\u201d said Christoph Heubner, an executive vice-president of the committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cTheir history and the suffering of all those persecuted and murdered by the Nazis is being exploited for commercial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The committee said the names of individuals were identifiable in many of the documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Heubner said such documents belonged to the families of the victims. \u201cThey should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe urge those responsible at the Felzmann auction house to show some basic decency and cancel the auction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group formed by survivors of the Auschwitz death camp is calling on a German auction house to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-574562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115560657942185947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}