A German auction house in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, had planned to hold an auction on Monday during which items belonging to victims of World War II were to be sold. Around 1 p.m. on Sunday, the listing for Monday’s auction disappeared from the auction house’s website.
Around 1 p.m. on Sunday, the auction vanished from the schedule planned for Monday at the Felzmann auction house. It was supposed to be the first auction of the day.
The items intended for sale included, among others, a notebook containing the schoolwork of a Polish man forced into labour in a concentration camp, armbands with the Jewish star, documents issued to prisoners, and unsent letters from mothers to their children held in the camps. One of the most valuable items, valued at 12,000 euros, is a collection of letters exchanged by a Jewish family from Wierszów.
Another installment of the auction
The auction is titled Das System des Terrors (pol. System terroru). Vol. II 1933-1945. This auction is number “2”, while the one labelled “1” took place in March 2019.
At that time, around 640 memorabilia items were put up for sale, including camp letters, prisoner cards from German death camps such as Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, and Ravensbrueck, as well as documents and stamps from, among others, the Łódź Ghetto.
Prices for the memorabilia generally did not exceed 300 euros. Not all the items offered were sold, and a small number were withdrawn from the auction.
The 2019 event did not attract wider media attention.
The Ulrich Felzmann auction house specializes in auctions of postage stamps.