Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has announced that an auction of objects related to the Holocaust has been canceled.
The planned auction was connected to Felzmann auction house in Germany.
“I spoke with German Foreign Minister @JoWadephul about the planned auction in Neuss of objects from the time of German terror during World War II. We agreed that such a scandal should be prevented,” Sikorski noted in a Polish-language post on X, according to a translation.
“Thank you, Minister @JoWadephul, for the information that the offensive auction of Holocaust artifacts has now been canceled. Respect for victims requires the dignity of silence, not the noise of commerce,” he noted in an English-language post.
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski addresses a joint press conference during a meeting of the foreign ministers of the so-called Weimar Triangle of France, Germany and Poland with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister 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 an important point in 20th century world history. Items to be auctioned included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other documents belonging to the perpetrators, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency DPA.
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There was resistance to the auction plan.
For example, the Fritz Bauer Institute strongly objected to the Holocaust-related auction in a press release.
“The Fritz Bauer Institute protests the planned auction by the Felzmann auction house and fundamentally opposes any commercial trade in documents relating to the Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. No business may be done with such documents,” a German-language press release said, according to a translation.
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“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless,” Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee said in a statement, according to the AP. “We urge those responsible at auction house Felzmann to show some decency and cancel the auction,” he had noted in the statement, according to the outlet.
