Lizzie van Zyl

Elizabeth Cecilia van Zyl ( – ), was a Boer child who died in the Bloemfontein concentration camp from typhoid during the Second Boer War.
 Life  
Lizzie was a child of Hermanus Egbert Pieter van Zyl and Elizabeth Cecilia van Zyl.Title: SRC 71 Bloemfontein CR, Type: Camp register, Location: Free State Archives Repository, Reference No.: SRC 71, Notes: p.20 She and her mother Elizabeth were inmates of the Bloemfontein concentration camp. They were given hardly any food, because they were Boers. 

She died in 1901, being six or seven years old. 

After she died, anti-war activist Emily Hobhouse used her death as a example of the sufferings of the Boers in the concentration camps. Hobhouse visited Lizzie in the concentration camp and described that she was a "weak and frail child in desperate need of good care." Hobhouse also took a photograph of Lizzie during her visit. Initially, Hobhouse's reporters refused to show the photograph to the world.

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Category:1894 births
Category:1901 deaths
Category:Afrikaner people