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Hilda and Rusty Bernstein Papers File
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Flyers

Including: for the 1944 Municipal Elections, issued by the Communist Party branch for Hillbrow and Berea entitled 'Have you met Hilda Watts. She is your prospective city councillor'; 'A straight talk on Municipal Affairs' by Hilda Watts; 'What they say about Hilda Watts - Communist candidate for Hillbrow - Berea Ward 10'; pamphlet containing a shortened version of a speech made by Hilda Watts in November 1946, entitled 'They work for you - how 15,000 non - European Municipal workers live'.

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.

Correspondence from prison

Letters by Hilda to her children, starting after 1 week in jail (undated) - 29 May 1960; copy of a birthday book for Frances prepared in jail, with drawings and poems; letter by Hilda to Rusty, 15 May 1960; a typed letter to Hilda's mother and two sisters Vera and Olga, one week after her release, dated Tuesday 5/60.

Notes made in jail, The Fort

Diary notes starting on the 31 March 1960-8 April, just before being arrested, and continued from The Fort on the 9 April throughout until being moved to Pretoria Central Prison on the 6 May up until the 13 May 1960.

Transcripts are available from the 9 April up to 18 May 1960, pages 1-43, but there are NO ORIGINAL NOTES from the 14-18 May 1960.

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.

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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