{"id":266989,"date":"2025-11-17T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:25:07","slug":"auction-of-nazi-death-camp-artefacts-cancelled-polands-dpm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266989\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction of Nazi death camp artefacts cancelled, Poland’s DPM says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Respect for victims requires the dignity of silence, not the din of commerce,” Sikorski said in post on X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the auction listing on the Auktionshaus Felzmann website had been removed by mid-afternoon on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted the auction house for comment.<\/p>\n

“Documents or expert reports by Nazi perpetrators that were offered at the auction are not for private collections,” German State Minister for Culture Wolfram Weimer told German news agency DPA.<\/p>\n

Steps should be taken to prevent future auctions, he added.<\/p>\n

“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless”, Christoph Heubner, an executive vice-president of the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC), said.<\/p>\n

Poland’s culture minister Marta Cienkowska said her ministry would investigate the provenance of the artefacts to determine whether any should be returned to Poland.<\/p>\n

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe’s Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died at the site were Jews.<\/p>\n

Among the others who lost their lives were Poles, Roma and Russian prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

Many of the artefacts scheduled to be auctioned were said to have come from the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. <\/p>\n

Mr Heubner, from the IAC, said they “belong to the families of the victims”. <\/p>\n

“They should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions and not degraded to mere commodities,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Respect for victims requires the dignity of silence, not the din of commerce,” Sikorski said in post on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-266989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}