Three Families and the Price of Freedom in South Africa.
'Rivonia's Children' is the harrowing and inspiring account of a handful of white Jewish activists who risked their lives to combat apartheid when South Africa plunged into an era of darkness in the 1960s from which it has only recently emerged.
This is the story of Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, longtime Communists so committed to the cause that even the threat of life imprisonment did not stop them: of Ruth First, a fiery activist held for months without charge; and of AnneMarie Wolpe, an innocent bystander sucked into the maelstrom, who had do decide whether or not to risk her own freedom and the life of her sick infant by helping her activist husband escape from prison.
This is a remarkable book about moral choice and about a group of extraordinary people who devoted their lives to the freedom of blacks in South Africa.
