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The fall of the hammer at 74 million pounds broke the tension, triggering a collective exhalation in the room and a round of applause.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin made a moral appeal to the auction house, stating that the items do not have inherent historical value and their sale could be dangerous.

The majority of Hitler's silver items have a current bidding price of £1, despite many of the estimations being in the tens-of-thousands.

The manuscript is the world’s oldest nearly complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. It was handwritten roughly 1,100 years ago on 792 pages of sheepskin.

The items fetched a total of $202 million, making the auction the largest jewelry sale in history.

Multiple auction houses have held sales of Nazi memorabilia in Australia and around the world in recent years.

The jewels were acquired by German department store tycoon Helmut Horten who, during the Nazi era, "purchased Jewish businesses that were sold under duress."

The museum is allowing the public to view the Codex Sassoon for free while it is in Israel.

A US auctioneer wanted to sell pants Rabbi Haim Kanievsky wore "for a long time" but took it down after media queries. Some buyers demand it be put back up.