Abstract
Betty Hirsch is revered throughout Germany for her pioneer work in getting blind people into employment; yet in the country of her second home she is hardly known. The article is a summary of a doctoral thesis by Christine Pluhar, "Betty Hirsch: the road of a blind woman", published in 1989. The quotations are from Betty Hirsch's reminiscences, written towards the end of her life. The article, which is slightly amended and translated by Hans Cohn, first appeared in HORUS 3/99, the organ of the Deutsche Verband Blinde und Sehbehinderte in Studium und Beruf, to whom we are grateful for permission to reprint.
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