Bernhard Bardach Collection 1893-2000

The Bernhard Bardach Collection describes mainly the career of a staff physician with the Austro-Hungarian army through educational and financial documents, photographs, and military decorations. Most importantly, Dr. Bardach kept a diary throughout his service in WW I. (see ME 1164)Bernhard Bardach was born in Lemberg (today Lʹviv, Ukraine) on Aug. 3, 1866. He finished high school in Lemberg in 1887 and immediately enrolled in medical school at the Universities in Graz and Vienna. He acquired his diploma in 1893 before entering his career as a staff physician with the Austro-Hungarian Army, first in Galicia and then in Trieste.Bernhard Bardach’s first wife, with whom he had two daughters, died in 1904. He got remarried and had two more daughters; in 1914 the family moved to Vienna, before Bernhard Bardach had to serve in WW I, first on the Russian and then on the Italian Front. He left his military career in 1920 with a full pension, opening a private practice in 1923.Bernhard Bardach left Vienna after Kristallnacht and immigrated to the US via Italy and Portugal, arriving in New York in 1941; he died in 1947.The Diary is catalogued as ME 1164 in the LBI Memoir Collection. A Synopsis in English is available in ME 1164.A map of the northern theater of war of the Austro-Hungarian army in WW I, marking advance and retreat routes, has been removed to MS 914.Photographs, incl. 2 family photo albums (1914 - ca. 1930) and 3 WW I photo albums have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.A portrait of Bernhard Bradach with spectacles and mustache in military uniform (oil on canvas) is kept in the LBI Art and Objects Collection.Military certificates of promotion and decoration (Oberarzt 1893, Stabsarzt 1911, Oberstabsarzt zweiter Klasse 1915, bronzene Militaerverdienstmedaille 1916, Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse 1916, silberne Militaerverdienstmedaille 1917, Militaerdienstzeichen 3. Klasse fuer Offiziere, 2 letters and diploma concerning the decoration "Karl-Truppen-Kreuz", together with all medals have been removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection.digitized9 Austrian medals awarded to Dr. Bernhard Bardach before and during World War I and a drawing showing Dr. Bernhard Bardach in a uniform and the sign "Paragraph 13" (Austrian anti-abortion paragraph) have been removed to the Art and Objects Collection