Alfred Linhard family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn561391
• English
• 1846-1993
• folders oversize box 10 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection contains documents, original and copied, as well as photographs, correspondence, and a manuscript memoir documenting the experiences of the Linhard family of Vienna, Austria and their efforts to emigrate following the German takeover in 1938. Includes a manuscript memoir by Alfred Linhard; copied documents related to his parents, Regina and Bernhard Linhard, including birth, marriage and death certificates; and letters Bernhard wrote to American aid organizations appealing for their assistance in helping him and his family to emigrate. Also includes family photographs, a pray...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562280
• English
• 1919-1938
• a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Diameter: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Coffee cup and saucer from café Dianabad brought with Alfred Linhard, his siblings, Edith, Peter, and Franzi, and their mother, Regina, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1939. Café Dianabad was one of three cafes that Bernhard Linhard, Alfred’s father, co-owned with his father in law Anton Blum and brother in law, Arthur, in the center of Vienna. On March 13, 1938 Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Alfred could no longer attend school, his father, Bernhard, was forced to give up his business. The family had to sel...