Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hildegard Israel
Physical Details
- Classification
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Tools and Equipment
- Category
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Fasteners
- Object Type
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Buttons (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- circular; blue
- Materials
- overall : wood
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:23:35
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn12678
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.
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