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An auction house in Germany canceled the sale of hundreds of items that belonged to Holocaust victims a day before it was set to take place.

The Felzmann auction house planned to offer 623 artifacts, including letters from concentration camps and documents detailing Nazi crimes, in the western German city of Neuss on Monday. After outcry from a Holocaust survivor group, the auction was canceled on Sunday and its listing disappeared from the house's website by Sunday afternoon.

The auction was canceled shortly after being condemned by the International Auschwitz Committee, a group of survivors based in Berlin. The group's executive vice president, Christoph Heubner, called the sale a "cynical and shameless undertaking" that left survivors "outraged and speechless." 

"Their history and the suffering of all those persecuted and murdered by the Nazis is being exploited for commercial gain," Heubner said in a statement on Saturday. He demanded the auction house cancel its event, saying the contents "belong to the families of the victims" and "should be displayed in museums or memorial exhibitions."