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“It reads like a thriller page after page. . . . The loveliest of Hilda Bernstein’s works about the ugliest of times.”—Albie Sachs, The Independent
“Were it not for ordinary heroes like the Bernsteins, South Africa would not be free today.”—Guardian
It was 1963 in South Africa during Apartheid when Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was arrested, along with Nelson Mandela and fifteen other leaders of the African National Congress. They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to “ferment violent revolution.” Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the “Rivonia Trial” and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime.
There was a long night ahead. We are unable to read. We listen all the time, listen for the sound of a car in anticipation that the police will come. If he is in the hands of the police, surely they will bring him to the house to search; they always raid after an arrest.
Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006) lived in London, but in 1933 moved to South Africa where she married Lionel Bernstein. She was elected as a Communist to the Johannesburg City Council; helped found the multiracial Federation of South African Women; and worked closely with the African National Congress’ Women’s League in opposition to apartheid.
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Hilda Bernstein (1915-2006) met and married Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein in South Africa; they had four children. She was elected as a communist on the Johannesburg City Council; worked as a journalist; and helped found the Federation of South African Women. Hilda and Rusty escaped from South Africa to London in 1964 and remained there for the rest of their lives.
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- PublisherPersephone Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1906462097
- ISBN 13 9781906462093
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