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Gerechtigkeit (Justice), newspaper


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 735

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Gerechtigkeit (Justice), newspaper

Date(s): 1934-1941

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Gerechtigkeit offices

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gerechtigkeit ('Justice') was a weekly newspaper, the first issue of which was published in September 1933. It was founded by Irene Harand, an Austrian, who was also co-founder of Weltverband gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (World League against Racial Hatred and Human Suffering). The paper was published for about 5 years and for part of the time in several European languages. Gerechtigkeit had a simple philosemitic message: anti-semitism was a moral outrage not only against Jews but also against Christian ideals; Nazism was a pagan movement, which, if not halted, would destroy European civilisation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence relating to Gerechtigkeit, 1934-1941, including correspondence from staff at Gerechtigkeit regarding raising funds for the distribution of the paper and comments regarding an article in Der Stürmer ('The Stormtrooper') about Gerechtigkeit and Irene Harand. Note from Professor E J Cohn concerning the Austrian Office, a body supported by the bulk of Austrian liberals, the Austrian legitimists and some Austrian socialists.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German and English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antifascism | Resistance to oppression | Oppression | Political movements
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Jews | Religious groups
Newspapers | Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences

Personal names
Harand | Irene | 1900-1975 | Austrian human rights activist

Corporate names
Gerechtigkeit x Justice

Places
Vienna | Austria | Western Europe | Europe