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Mar 21, 2023 inhistory

Lizzie van Zyl was a 7-year-old Boer girl and an inmate at a British concentration camp. After her father refused to surrender, Lizzie was labeled an "undesirable" and deliberately starved. She died of typhoid fever shortly after this photo was taken, South Africa, 1901 .

Lizzie van Zyl was a 7-year-old Boer girl and an inmate at a British concentration camp. After her father refused to surrender, Lizzie was labeled an "undesirable" and deliberately starved. She died of typhoid fever shortly after this photo was taken, South Africa, 1901 .

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