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Holocaust. Irene Harand, Righteous among the Nations “Sein Kampf” Antwort an Hitler, portrait, 1st ed., 1935, in German - Holocaust. Irene Harand, Righteous among the Nations “Sein Kampf” Antwort an Hitler, portrait, 1st ed., 1935, in German Im Selbstverlag, Wien 1935. 1st ed. 5. till 10. Thousand. 350, (2) pp. with portrait of the author, Soft cover is missing Wien, self-published by the author, size: 19 x 12 cm. Condition: Cover is missing; moderate foxing to most of pages Weight: 290 gr. First edition of the book against National Socialism and Hitler, published at the author's own expense. A year later the book was published in French and English. Irene Harand (1900-1975), Austrian Catholic, gave numerous lectures all over Europe after the publication of her book. In 1938 a bounty of 100,000 Reichsmarks was placed on her and her books were publicly burned in Salzburg. Harand then fled from Great Britain to the United States, from where she made it possible for numerous Austrian Jews to emigrate to America. Irene Harand (September 6, 1900 – February 3, 1975) was an Austrian human rights activist and campaigner against anti-Semitism. Harand was born a Roman Catholic in Vienna and was an early organizer of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews. She started the Harand Movement, an organization 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 anti-Semitic sentiments and Nazism. To counter Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, she wrote a book named His Struggle - the Answer to Hitler from Irene Harand. In 1937, Irene Harand published a series of anti-Nazi poster stamps (oversized, unofficial stamps often used at the time in promotions) portraying the contributions made by Jews to civilization over the centuries. When Nazi Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Harand was lecturing in London; it saved her life as the Nazis had set a price for her capture of 100,000 Reichsmarks. 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 her ashes are buried at Feuerhalle Simmering in Vienna. In 2008 a square in the Vienna district of Wieden was named in her honor.