News that an online vendor – identified as a Vancouver man – was selling Holocaust memorabilia on eBay has ignited outrage around the globe.
News that an online vendor – identified as a Vancouver man – was selling Holocaust memorabilia on eBay has ignited outrage around the globe.
The seller was identified by the Daily Mail as “Viktor Kempf, a Ukrainian now living in Vancouver.”
B’nai B’rith Canada CEO Frank Dimant said “I cannot envision any person wanting to collect memorabilia of this nature. It belongs in museums, or with the families of those that were murdered. It’s grotesque.”
Dimant commended eBay for acting swiftly to remove the items from its website. The sale of Holocaust memorabilia is illegal in most EU countries, but not in the U.K. The Daily Mail quoted Kempf as saying: “I understand why people may think profiting is wrong but I sell these items to document (them) and fund my book projects.”
The Vancouver Sun was unable to confirm Kempf is a resident of Vancouver.
The domain registration for Kempf included a Russian email address, a Vancouver phone number that is out of service, and the address of a Marpole apartment that has a different name on the buzzer.