A prominent Holocaust survivors’ organization has issued a strong appeal to a German auction house to halt the sale of hundreds of artifacts tied to the Holocaust. The International Auschwitz Committee, based in Berlin, described the planned auction as “cynical and shameless,” urging its immediate cancellation. The event, titled “The System of Terror,” was scheduled for Monday by the Felzmann auction house in Neuss, near Düsseldorf. The collection, comprising over 600 items, included deeply personal artifacts such as letters penned by concentration camp prisoners to their families, Gestapo index cards, and other documents that explicitly identify individuals by name. Christoph Heubner, executive vice president of the committee, condemned the auction, stating that it exploits the suffering of Holocaust victims for profit. He emphasized that such artifacts should be preserved in museums or memorials rather than being commodified. The committee called on the auction house to demonstrate basic decency by canceling the sale. By Sunday afternoon, the auction listing had been removed from the Felzmann website, though the house had not yet responded to inquiries.