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The Heidelberg Concentration Camp Monument is located in Kloof Cemetery, Heidelberg, Gauteng. It commemorates the Boer women and children who died in the Heidelberg concentration camp during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The camp was established by British forces to intern Boer civilians, primarily women and children, as part of a scorched-earth strategy. The monument, erected in 1902, is a simple stone obelisk inscribed with names and details of the deceased. It stands as a somber reminder of the human cost of the war, with over 200 deaths recorded at the Heidelberg camp, mostly due to disease and malnutrition.

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