Button

Object | Accession Number: 1998.135.13

1998.135.13 front
Button

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Classification: Tools and Equipment
Category: Fasteners
Object Type: Buttons (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hildegard Israel

Physical Description: circular; light brown
Materials: overall : wood
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The button was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by Hildegard Israel, the wife of Ernst Israel.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-10-24 14:08:56
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Also in Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

The collection consists of a passport, and identification card, a photograph, an invoice, buttons, and a marriage certificate from Shanghai, China.

Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers

Document

The Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers include Ernst’s and Hildegard‘s1943 Shanghai marriage certificate, a 1939 refugee identification card issued to Hildegard Ksinski (Israel) in Shanghai, a 1938 German passport for Ernst Israel, a 1934 invoice on the back of stationery from the Shanghai button factory Ernst managed, and a photograph of Hildegard’s brother, Alfons Cohn, with the Ward Home Kitchen staff in Shanghai.