According to a German weekly, the Felzmann auction house in Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia plans to start the auction “System of Terror, Volume II 1933–1945” on Monday. More than 600 artifacts are to be sold, including Nazi documents, lists of concentration camp prisoners, a yellow Star of David from the Buchenwald camp and an anti-Semitic poster.
How many Holocaust-related documents does the Felzmann auction house want to sell?
What items will be auctioned?
What is the position of the International Auschwitz Committee on this matter?
When will the document auction in Neuss start?
The idea is becoming increasingly controversial, but the auction house has not yet responded to the criticism. You can still view items for sale on the Felzmann auction house website.
Scandalous auction in Germany. The International Auschwitz Committee reacts
The International Auschwitz Committee appealed to cancel the event. The organization's executive vice president, Christoph Heubner, said the sale of personal documents belonging to Nazi victims for commercial purposes was a “cynical and shameless enterprise.”
“Documents on persecution and the Holocaust belong to the families of the victims. They should be displayed in museums or at commemorative exhibitions, and not reduced to the role of a commodity. We appeal to the people responsible at the auction house to maintain basic decency and cancel the auction,” said Heubner, quoted by “Der Spiegel”.
