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Hilda and Rusty Bernstein Papers sub-subseries With digital objects
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Diary entries by Hilda

Handwritten diary notes, entered in pocket diary pages from 2 January 1964-1 July 1964, and 16 July-5 August 1964 (i.e.. 2-15 July 1964 are missing); retrospectively summarised diary notes by Hilda Bernstein.

Sketches

Various sketches made during the Rivonia trial in court, depicting the judge, some of the accused, the court room, members of the Special Branch, other people in the court room; the same sketches probably copies.

Newspaper clips

Newspaper clip from the 'Daily Express' reporting about the young Hilda Watts appealing for a collection for war sufferers, dated 25 February 1938; from the Daily Express about a resolution by the Anti-Fascist league to ask the South African Trades and Labour Council to discuss a united rally against Fascism in the Union, mentioning Hilda Watts taking a leading part, 7 March 1938 (see flat folio for oversize Newspaper clips).

Other

Certificate of Award of the Peace Gold Medal, issued by the Presidential Committee of the World Council of Peace to the Rivonia Prisoners, signed by J.D. Bernal on the 27 April 1964; Note of Thanks written to Hilda by Annie Goldberg in 1964; typed letter (unsigned) to Mary Benson in acknowledgement of her statement she made before the Special Committee on Apartheid in March 1963, dated 26 April 1964; typed note with handwritten explanation "Dennis Goldberg's father outlining a plan to me to get Dennis, Rusty and others out of jail. He said I must supply the people, van, jackets, tools, etc.".