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HARAND, Irene : His Struggle. An Answer to Hitler

The Artcraft Press, Chicago, 1937

A near fine copy in the original brown cloth, slight wear to spine ends and very slight spine lean, else a clean tight example of this scarce and important work. An interesting association copy, having the autograph ownership name and address of Viennese physician Helmuth Husserl, who lived in South Africa from the late 1930's. Also in his hand is Irene Harand's address details and of her periodical "Die Gerechtigkeit". Irene Harand (6 September 1900 - 3 February 1975) was an Austrian human rights activist and campaigner against antisemitism. Harand was born a Roman Catholic in Vienna and was an early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews. She started the Harand Movement, an organisation Weltbewegung gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (World Movement Against Racial Hatred and Human Suffering) in 1933 and actively campaigned throughout Europe before World War II. Though not opposed to the Austrofascist rule of Engelbert Dollfuß and his Fatherland's Front, Harand fought against antisemitic sentiments and Nazism. To counter Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, she wrote a book named Sein Kampf - Antwort an Hitler von Irene Harand (His Struggle - the Answer to Hitler from Irene Harand). When Nazi Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Harand was in London lecturing, it saved her life as the Nazis had set a price for her capture of 100,000 Reichmarks. She then emigrated to the United States, where she established the Austrian forum, which after the war was the basis for the Austrian Cultural Forum, of which she became the leader. In 1969 she received the honorary title of a Righteous among the Nations from the state of Israel for her resistance against the Nazi anti-semitism. Harand died in New York in 1975 and is buried in Vienna-Simmering. In 2008 a square in the Vienna district of Wieden was named in her honour.

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