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Hilda and Rusty Bernstein Papers File
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Compilations of prison accounts

From various prisons, of which some seem to have been written by former inmates, including: an outline of sections/chapters and a Prologue describing Hilda and Rusty Bernstein's arrest on the 8 April 1960; accounts from the Rooi Hell in Port Elizabeth, and accounts of the practise of separating African prisoners at the Johannesburg Prison The Fort.

Some of the accounts and sections are incomplete, but all have been numbered throughout, pages 1-57.

Various items

Memorandum on conditions of hygiene and medical attention at the Johannesburg Gaol; a handwritten analysis of the 1960 Emergency Regulation and prison conditions in South Africa at the time; typed pages of Ruth First's 'Diary from Refuge'; letter describing the prison ordeal of a women from the Worcester location, dated 1 October 1960.

Copies of State department records

documenting the longstanding surveillance of Rusty's activities particularly in the Communist Party under the 1950 Suppression of Communism Act; as well as continued monitoring of his activities after he had fled South Africa in August 1964, dated November 1964-1984

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