ebay apologizes for selling relics of Nazi concentration camp victims

AOL's online shopping website, ebay, 3rd issued a statement apologizing for the sale of the remnants of the Nazi concentration camps and the cancellation of an auction of about 30 relics. ebay's lack of supervision over auction materials has sparked outrage.

The goods are genuine

The Sunday Mail reported that the newspaper found that over the past week, some 30 items believed to have come from the Auschwitz camps, including prison, shoes, toothbrushes, "David Star" armbands, were sold at high prices on ebay. Among them, a toothbrush cost 230 dollars, a pair of shoes priced 1495 dollars, a prison is called the price of 18,000 U.S. dollars.

The sellers of these items are Ukrainian man Victor Kempf, who now lives in Canada. He claimed to be a historian and bought the prison from an American.

He said the prison, 9489, was "genuine", a Polish baker who was born in 1912 and died of Auschwitz.

Website sorry

After receiving the report of the Sunday Mail, ebay immediately launched an investigation, on 3rd on the website issued an apology statement, the Holocaust victims of the Nazi massacre became the net for sale and "deeply sorry", promised "will not allow this nature of sales again".

The statement said that the site has deleted all of the Holocaust-related items, "Thousands of employees will check our website, using the most advanced technology to find goods that do not meet the standard of sale." Meanwhile, ebay pledged to donate 40,000 dollars to charity for "expressing concern about the matter" and apologizing.

The Auschwitz camp in southern Poland, known as the "Factory of Death", was built by Nazi Germany during World War II and was the largest concentration camp of the year. It was founded in 1940, mainly for the detention and killing of Jews transported from all over Europe. By 1945, about more than 1 million people had been killed there, most of them Jews.

Not the first auction

Ebay admits it was unaware of the presence of the items on the site's shelves and how long they were there, the Sunday Post said.

This is not ebay's first auction for the victims of the Holocaust. Kempf said a seller last year sold a prison suit for the victims of the Auschwitz camp on ebay, earning thousands of pounds.

Some Nazi Holocaust survivors and related groups expressed dissatisfaction and criticism of ebay. The 68-Year-old Eva Clark was born in a concentration camp and 15 families were killed in a concentration camp. "Mainstream websites like ebay make a profit, which is a great disrespect to the victims," he said. "she said. The Simon-Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, USA, is a group dedicated to the global hunt for war criminals. "ebay should be ashamed of it," said staff Labi Abraham Coux Cooper. These precious objects are a testament to history and can only belong to museums. ”

Germany, Austria and France have banned such deals. In 2000, Yahoo (33.19, 0.01, 0.03%) was sued in France for auctioning off relics of the Nazi massacre.