Bernstein, Hilda

LC control no.	n 83228053
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bernstein, Hilda *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Schwartz, Hilda Swartz, Hilda Watts, Hilda Schwarz, Hilda
Associated place	Johannesburg (South Africa) London (England)
Birth date	1915-04-15
Death date	2006-09-08
Place of death	Cape Town (South Africa)
Affiliation	Johannesburg (South Africa). City Council Federation of South African Women South African Peace Council
Profession or occupation	Artists Authors City council members Anti-apartheid activists Exiles Journalists
Found in	Her Death is part of the process, 1983: t.p. (Hilda Bernstein) LC data base, 8-8-83 (hdg.: Bernstein, Hilda Watts; usage: Hilda Bernstein) Her For their triumphs & for their tears, 1985: t.p. (Hilda Bernstein) p. 4 of cover (b. 1915) Hilda Bernstein, author, fighter for women's rights, Luthuli award winner, viewed May 18, 2006 (Hilda Bernstein; b. 1915, London, England; emigrated to South Africa in 1932; founding member of the Federation of South African Women; also a founder of the South Africa Peace Council; City Councillor in Johannesburg form 1943 to 1946, the only communist to be elected to public office; has retired from political activity but still works as a writer and artist; in 1964 after the Rivonia trial, she escaped from home as police came to arrest her; she and Rusty [her husband] crossed the frontier on foot to Botswana, ultimately arriving in London where she worked as a free-lance journalist; and started a new career as an artist and print-maker) A life of one's own, 2002: t.p. (Hilda Bernstein) p. 15 (he [her father] changed his German-sounding surname from Schwartz to the eminently English Watts. But he did not legalise the change) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), May 18, 2006 (Hilda Bernstein; b. Apr. 15, 1915, London, England) Biography: Swartz, Simeon and Olga (A life of one's own by Hulda Bernstein), viewed May 18, 2006 (book is essentially a pair of cameo stories of Hilda's father, born Simeon Swartz, and her sister Olga) New York times WWW site, Sept. 13, 2006 (Hilda Bernstein; b. 1915, London; d. Friday [Sept. 8, 2006], Cape Town, aged 91; anti-apartheid activist and author whose husband was tried for treason in South Africa alongside Nelson Mandela) Times online WWW site, Oct. 2, 2006 (Hilda Bernstein; b. Hilda Schwarz, May 15, 1915, London; d. Sept. 8, 2006; South African activist who fought against apartheid and after being exiled continued the struggle from London)