The images of horror of inhabitants of concentration camps hosted by the British during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), these are innocent women and children held here they were guilty of no crimes but history has largely forgotten about these hell holes that existed just over forty years before the Nazis created their own. Some of these images may be too graphic.
Boer women. Emily Hobhouse’s report: “The women are wonderful. They cry very little and never complain. The very magnitude of their sufferings, their indignities, loss and anxiety seems to lift them beyond tears… only when it cuts afresh at them through their children do their feelings flash out.”
A Boer child, Abraham Carel Wessels in a concentration camp during the Anglo Boer War.
Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camps – the abhorrent conditions in these camps caused the death of 4 177 women, 22 074 children under sixteen and 1 676 men.
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