German auction house urged to cancel sale of Holocaust artefacts

Survivors group calls on firm Felzmann to ‘show some basic decency’ and halt the ‘cynical and shameless’ event

A Holocaust survivors group is calling on a German auction house to cancel a sale of hundreds of Holocaust artefacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that identify many people by name.

The International Auschwitz Committee, a Berlin-based group, called the “cynical and shameless” sale with a title of the System of Terror to be stopped. It is scheduled to be held on Monday by the Felzmann auction house.