Berlin — A Holocaust survivors group is calling on a German auction house to cancel a sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that identify many people by name.

The International Auschwitz Committee, a Berlin-based group of survivors, called for the cancellation of the “cynical and shameless" auction — titled “The System of Terror" and set to be held Monday by the Felzmann auction house.

The collection of over 600 lots at auction in western Neuss, near Düsseldorf, included letters written by prisoners from German concentration camps to loved ones at home, Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, the German news agency dpa reported.

“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical

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