Auschwitz Committee wants German auction of Holocaust items scrapped

NAMPA / DPA

2025-11-15

Dusseldorf (dpa) - The International Auschwitz Committee (IAK) has called on an auction house in western Germany to cancel its auction of Holocaust artefacts scheduled for Monday. The auction of personal documents belonging to victims of Nazi Germany is considered by Holocaust survivors and their relatives to be a "cynical and shameless undertaking," said IAK executive vice president Christoph Heubner in Berlin on Saturday. The suffering of all......

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