TreeItem with I18N GWT

I am wondering how to build a TreeItem with I18N and not have different tokens for a menu item.

If I build a TreeItem like this:

 @UiField
    Tree tree;

    TreeItem customer = new TreeItem(customerGroup");
       customer.addItem("searchCustomer");
       customer.addItem("create");
       customer.setState(true);

                            tree.clear();
   tree.addItem(customer);


                  @UiHandler("tree")
  public void onSelection(SelectionEvent<TreeItem> event) {
    eventBus.fireEvent(event);
   }

the ValueChange token I get when a user clicks the "create" node is "create" and then I get code like

 public void onValueChange(ValueChangeEvent<String> event) {
  String token = event.getValue();
     if(token.equals("create") 
    {
    CreateCustomerView create = new CreateCustomerView(eventBus,
         customerService);
       content.setContent(create);
    } 

...

But what if I want to have different languages in the TreeItem nodes, then I want something other then the text as a token, perhaps an id. Can I solve this with the Places pattern from the MVP pattern, and if so how does that work?

On TreeItem there are 2 method setUserObject(Object userObject) and getUserObject. You can use those to or set an Id, which you than can use to check against. However, I don't see how you come from a SelectionEvent to the ValueChangeEvent. You lose some information in between.