Auschwitz
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
Bidding had reached $3,400 when the auction was suspended pending a Nov. 16 hearing, following an outcry from Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
“Extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000 to $40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction House • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt “despicable sale.”
“At a time when hatred based on race and belief is escalating, Harry [Haft]’s story is a reminder of overcoming adversity against all odds,” said the film’s producers.
“[It] is an outrageous attack on one of the greatest tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp,” said the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.
“They did not choose any other place or event,” said the group Action and Communication on the Middle East, “but precisely the location where more than a million people were murdered.”
Esther Bejarano said that music helped keep her alive during her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In response to the appointment of former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, now a member of the right-wing Law and Justice Party, four members of the advisory council have recently resigned.
Polish culture minister calls the decision “unjustified” and says they risk “politicizing the discussion” around the museum.
A recently completed two-year project discovered some 4,000 previously unknown identities and information about 26,000 others.
The man, identified as Harry S., was accused of having “aided and abetted [the] murder [of] several hundred [people]” at the Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland where roughly 65,000 people died during the Holocaust.
In a tribute initiative, Germany shared with Israel a photographic exhibition from the Willy-Brandt-Haus of portraits of Holocaust survivors around the world.
