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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced that the auction of items related to the massacre had been cancelled.
The planned auction was linked to the Felzmann auction house in Germany.
“I spoke with German Foreign Minister @jowadefull regarding the planned auction in Neuss of items from the German terror period during World War II. We agreed that such a scandal must be stopped,” Sikorski said in a Polish-language post on X, according to translation.
“Thank you, Minister @JoWadephul, for informing that the aggressive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been cancelled. Respect for the victims requires the dignity of silence, not the noise of business,” he said in an English-language post.
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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski addresses a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of Ukraine on the meeting of the foreign ministers of the so-called Weimar Triangle of France, Germany and Poland in Warsaw on September 29, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images)
The horrific mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II represents a major point in 20th-century world history. The Associated Press, citing German news agency dpa, reported that among the items put up for auction were letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other criminal documents.
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There were protests against the auction plan.
For example, the Fritz Bauer Institute expressed strong objection to Holocaust-related auctions in a press release.
“The Fritz Bauer Institute opposes the auction planned by the Felzmann auction house and is fundamentally opposed to any commercial trade in documents relating to Nazi persecution and genocide. No trade should be conducted with such documents,” a German-language press release said, according to a translation.
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A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army, 27 January 1945. Photo taken by Red Army photographer Captain Alexander Vorontsov during the production of a film about the liberation of the camp. The children were dressed in adult uniforms by the Russians. The children are (from left to right): Tommy Schwarz (later Shacham), Miriam Ziegler, Paula Lebovics (front), Ruth Weber, Berta Weinhaber (later Bracha Katz), Erica Winter (later Dohan), Marta Weiss (later Weiss), Eva Weiss (later Slonim), Gábor Hirsch (seen right behind Eva Weiss), Gabriel Neumann, Robert Schlesinger (after Samuel Shelach), Eva Mozes Kor, and Miriam Mozes Zeiger.
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According to the AP, Christoph Huebner of The International Auschwitz Committee said in a statement, “For the victims of Nazi persecution and the survivors of the Holocaust, this auction is a reprehensible and shameless undertaking that leaves them angry and speechless.” “We urge those responsible at the Felzman auction house to show some basic decency and cancel the auction,” he said in the statement, according to the outlet.
