Lizzie van Zyl
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Lizzie van Zyl
| Lizzie van Zyl | |
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 Lizzie van Zyl |
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| Born | 1894[citation needed] Boer Republic[citation needed] |
| Died | May 9, 1901[1] Bloemfontein[1] |
Lizzie Van Zyl was a child inmate of Bloemfontein camp who died from typhoid fever during the Second Boer War[1][2].
The British incarcerated her following the refusal of her father, a Boer combatant, to surrender.
Activist Emily Hobhouse used her death as an example of the hardships the Boer women and children faced in the British concentration camps during the war.
References
- ^ a b c "Bloemfontein". British Concentration Camps of the South African War 1900-1902. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Bloemfontein/. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
- ^ van Heyningen, Elizabeth (May/June 2010). A tool for modernisation? The Boer concentration camps of the South African War, 1900-1902. 106. http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0038-23532010000300014&script=sci_arttext.
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