Hat badge of the Jewish Police

Items in this collection were curated to simulate the experience of being alive in Europe during Nazi occupation. These items may have been seen, touched, or used by, or used on a person who lived in a city, or in a ghetto, or in a concentration camp. You can view armbands, art, badges, concentration camp items, clothes, collar tabs, hats, employment records, correspondence to and from concentration camps, money, medals, intact and defaced parchment items, patches, pins, postal items, printed material, survivor recognition items, and identification tags.

This website is dedicated to my father’s legacy: my mother Lorna, my sister Caryn, my daughters and my nephews.

A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a checkered shirt, standing in front of a display with various shirts, uniforms, and framed items on shelves in a museum or display room.

The German railcar in Whitwell filled with millions of paper clips

Close-up of a smiling older man with gray hair, glasses, and a striped shirt.

Gilbert Tabby (1934-2019)

The Tabby Collection at the Children’s Holocaust Memorial Whitwell, TN

Artifacts of life in Nazi occupied Europe