The Linden family collected the materials during their time living in Shanghai, China,from Mar. 1939 to Aug. 1947. Fred Linden (Fritz Isaac Lindenstrauss) organized and arranged them into several scrapbooks and photo albums over the years. Kurt J. Linden obtained the collection after his father's death in June 1997. Kurt Linden donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Dec. 1998.