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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A body marker from a Nazi concentration camp was removed from a public auction here after complaints from leaders at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The 2-inch, round limestone tag from the camp at Dachau in Germany was among memorabilia from the unclaimed estate of a Los Angeles man who died last fall. It was to have gone on the block Saturday at a monthly county auction.
"It's ... what amounts to a toe-tag from a person, probably of Jewish ancestry, who was undoubtedly gassed and incinerated at the Dachau concentration camp," said Craig Hendrickson, chief of public administrator operations in the county's treasury-tax collector's division Friday.
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