Nazi Documents Withdrawn From German Auction Passed to Poland's Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
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Hundreds of Holocaust documents pulled from auction handed to Auschwitz Foundation
After a planned November auction of hundreds of Holocaust-era items, including yellow stars and postcards from Jewish Holocaust victims, was canceled following international backlash, a majority of the items have now been given to the foundation for public remembrance purposes
Hundreds of Holocaust documents that were originally supposed to be auctioned have been handed over to a foundation, the German news agency dpa reports. The auction was supposed to take place...
Nazi documents withdrawn from German auction passed to Poland's Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
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A planned auction of Holocaust certificates caused indignation in November. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia stepped in and quietly pulled the strings.
After international protests, the Landtag in North Rhine-Westphalia hands over 428 Holocaust documents to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. Among them are camp postcards, perpetrator letters and camp money.
A planned auction of Holocaust testimonies in Germany has caused a scandal. The documents have now been transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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