"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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