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.
From the guide to the Bernhard Bardach Collection, 1887-1945, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives)
