“We will not let this auction to appear again,” said Minister of Culture and National Heritage Marta Cienkowska on Polsat News, referring to the auction of memorabilia after victims of German crimes. The minister besides confirmed that all items had already disappeared from the website of the German auction house.

- I'm sorry. As shortly as we learned, besides thanks to Polsat News, about this auction, we immediately took action - said in Polsat News Cienkowska.
The minister's message is connected to the media auctioning items after victims of planet War II crimes, among others, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This initiative was wanted by the German Felzmann Auction home in Neuss.
The head of the Ministry of Culture stressed that the ministry was in contact with the Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs and the Polish embassy in Berlin from the very beginning. Cienkowska declared that all souvenirs issued at the online auction will be analysed to verify whether they are authentic and whether they should belong to the Polish state.
Scandal auction in Germany. "We won't allow"
On Monday, 1 of the German auction houses was to auction a private collection "The panic strategy part II 1933-1945", which consists of memorabilia and papers after prisoners of German concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
The auction was criticized, among others, by the president Karol NawrockiHead of the Ministry of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski or Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska.
Politician on Polsat News confirmed that controversial bidding disappeared from the website the auction home and declared that the ministry would not let souvenirs from planet War II victims to be utilized for commercial purposes.
- I'm sorry. We're not gonna let that auction show up again.. I just want to remind you, this isn't the first auction house. The first specified auction appeared in 2019, but it was only at this moment, today, after the second specified situation, the Polish state but besides German institutions, They worked so fast. - Szenkowska said.
Objects to be auctioned, including papers of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, will be carefully analysed in terms of authenticity and value for the Polish state.
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Karol Nawrocki in a message published by the Chancellery of the president appealed to the Polish government that this "He demanded a refund, and yet bought all the souvenirs after the victims of German crimes on Polish lands, and the cost of this task was added to the general reparation account".
In turn the head of Polish diplomacy Radosław Sikorski called the auction of victims of Nazi crimes "abnormality"and after talking to the head of the German MFA, Johann Wadephul declared that they would jointly prevent specified incidents.
I spoke to the German Minister for abroad Affairs @JoWadephul on the planned auction of German panic items in Neuss during planet War II. We agreed to prevent specified a stumbling.
— Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 (@sikorskiradek) November 16, 2025
German ambassador for a controversial auction. "It should never have happened."
The vote on the online bidding, which provoked outrage from the Polish authorities, besides took German Ambassador to Poland Miguel Berger. A diplomat in the social media entry stated that trade in papers of victims of Nazism is unacceptable.
"I welcome the cancellation of this auction. It should never have taken place.. You must not trade papers and individual objects of victims of Nazism" - wrote the ambassador.
I welcome the cancellation of this auction. It should never have taken place. It is forbidden to trade papers and individual objects of the victims of Nazism. https://t.co/oRl8dpqai9
— Miguel Berger (@Amb_Berger) November 16, 2025
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This position besides maintains Institute of National Memory, which called for an auction home in Neuss to "stop holding akin auctions and to deal responsibly with artifacts of specified deep importance".
"These kinds of artifacts constitute a priceless evidence of past and the suffering of millions of people. They cannot be treated as a commodity or a collection element. Their place is in museums, archives and memory institutions, in which they should service education and commemoration of victims, alternatively than in private display cases of collectors" - we read in the IPN release.
According to the representatives of the Institute, the usage of memorabilia after victims of Nazi crimes raises "common outrage" and constitutes "morally reprehensible commercialisation Holocaust tragedy".
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