A scheduled auction in Germany set to feature hundreds of artifacts from the Holocaust — including chilling letters written by prisoners in concentration camps — was canceled on Sunday after intense backlash.

The auction by Auktionhaus Felzmann, dubbed “The System of Terror,” consisted of more than 600 lots with vestiges from the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, including slews of documentation like Gestapo index cards and letters penned by prisoners in German concentration camps to their loved ones back home.

The addition of the letters stoked a fiery rage across Europe, particularly in Poland, which was annexed by Nazi Germany and used as grounds for a majority of its concentration camps, including Auschwitz.

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

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