The Tel Aviv District Court, headed by Judge Rachel Urakbi, granted a request today (Wednesday) at the request of the Center for Holocaust Survivors' Organizations and issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting an auction of the needle system used by the Nazis to tattoo prisoners in concentration camps.
The hearing on the petition will take place on November 16.
Following the restraining order, the sale will not be carried out by the Zollmans auction house.
The court through the restraining order effectively prohibited any proprietary, physical or contractual action on the same object.
A petition by the Center for Holocaust Survivors' Organizations, directed against the seller (the auction house) and the State of Israel, claims that the object's place in a national institution commemorating the Holocaust.
"Holocaust survivors have the legal and moral right to claim ownership of the means of atrocity used to exterminate and abuse their people.
As reported, an auction house in Jerusalem is offering the needle systems for sale.
The petition states that the only benefit that such an object can have is the commemoration of the Holocaust and evidence against the criminals.
"Some people think that this is an object that is a currency passed to the merchant, something that has economic value, that can be made a profit. Only Holocaust survivors can own such an object, by virtue of the laws of honesty, and its place at Yad Vashem."
Stated in the petition.
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