protests by japanese-american groups and star trek 's george takei have led an east coast auction house to cancel a sale of 450 photos and artifacts from world war ii internment camps .
thousands of japanese-americans , groups and sympathizers posted their opposition to the sale on social media and the auction house 's facebook page , the san jose mercury news reported thursday .
the auction was halted thanks , to the efforts of takei , who lived in an internment camps in arkansas as a child .