 Hymie was famous for selling and distributing COP literature.Hymie and Esther lent their energies to the organization of the Women’s March in Pretoria on 9 August 1956 where 20,000 women marched and submitted petitions protesting the "Pass Laws", a fundamental building block of Apartheid.This organization that was partly led and created by the Barsels is now accorded a National Holiday in the new South Africa.