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German auction house calls off ‘shameless’ sale of concentration camp artifacts

JL;DR SUMMARY A German auction house has canceled the proposed sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts from Auschwitz and Buchenwald following public outcry, especially criticism from Holocaust survivor groups. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AuschwitzHolocaustAuctionSurvivorsArtifactsBuchenwaldExploitationMemory PreservationInternational Auschwitz CommitteeFelzmann Auction House

Places mentioned

Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"The Felzmann auction house planned to offer 623 artifacts, including letters from concentration camps and documents detailing Nazi crimes, in the western German city of Neuss on Monday."
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"A postcard from Auschwitz to Krakow in 1940 had a starting bid of $580, with a listing advertising the prisoners very low inmate number and their letters very good condition."
Berlin, Germany
"The auction was canceled shortly after being condemned by the International Auschwitz Committee, a group of survivors based in Berlin."
Poland
"He also appealed for artifacts to be handed to the Auschwitz Museum."
Ohio, United States
"Two 17th-century paintings were taken out of an Ohio auction in September after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined they had been looted from a German Jews collection during World War II."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"And in 2021, an auction house in Brooklyn suspended the sale of a 19th-century ledger claimed by a Jewish community in Romania."
Germany
"Two 17th-century paintings were taken out of an Ohio auction in September after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined they had been looted from a German Jews collection during World War II."
Romania
"And in 2021, an auction house in Brooklyn suspended the sale of a 19th-century ledger claimed by a Jewish community in Romania."

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