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The Heidelberg Concentration Camp Monument is located within Kloof Cemetery in Heidelberg, Gauteng. This monument commemorates the victims of the Heidelberg concentration camp, one of the British-run internment camps established during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The camp was set up in 1901 to house Boer women, children, and black African refugees displaced by the British scorched-earth policy. The monument, erected in 1902, marks the burial site of many who died in the camp, primarily from disease and malnutrition. The camp's death toll is recorded as 482 white inmates and an unknown number of black inmates, whose graves are often unmarked or located in separate sections of the cemetery. The monument stands as a somber reminder of the human cost of the war, with the camp's conditions reflecting the broader tragedy of the concentration camp system that claimed over 27,000 Boer lives and at least 20,000 black African lives across the region.

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