Irene Harand
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Irene Harand, (September 6, 1900 - February 3, 1975) Austrian human rights activist. Harand was born in Vienna and were an early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews. She started an organisation Weltbewegung gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (movement against racial hatred and human suffering) and was actively campaigning in many European countries before the second world war. To counter Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, she wrote a book named Sein Kampf - Antwort an Hitler von 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.
Irene Harand emigrated to the USA, where she established the Austrian forum, which after the war was the basis for the Austrian Cultural Forum, which she became the leader of. In 1969 she received the honor Righteous Among the Nations for her resistance against the Nazi antisemittism. Irene Harand died in New York in 1975.
