Lizzie van Zyl | |
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![]() Lizzie van Zyl, photographed in January or February 1901 | |
Born | Elizabeth Cecilia van Zyl 22 April 1894 |
Died | 9 May 1901 (aged 7) Bloemfontein Concentration Camp , Bloemfontein, Orange Free State Republic |
Cause of death | Typhoid fever |
Burial place | Unknown but most likely in an unmarked grave in President Brand cemetery in Bloemfontein |
Nationality | South African |
Elizabeth Cecilia van Zyl (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɪˈlizabet səˈsilja fan zɛi̯l]; 22 April 1894 – 9 May 1901)[1][2][3] was a South African child inmate of the British-operated Bloemfontein Concentration Camp who died from typhoid fever during the Second Anglo-Boer War.[2][3][4]
Bloemfontein concentration camp (Typhoid fever, possible severe neglect)