Search this database of over 300 records of people who died in the Norvalspont concentration Camp. Norvalspont was probably established about November 1900, in order to relieve the overcrowded Bloemfontein camp with its dire shortage of water. During a visit to this camp Emily Hobhouse could not even find a trained nurse.
This database provides names and surnames as well as an approximate date of death and whether the deceased was over the age of 15 or not.
Below is list of names to be found in the database.
Adendorff, Badenhorst, Baird, Becker, Bekker, Bezuidenhout, Blignaut, Bloem, Boshoff, Botha, Bowen, Brink, Brits, Brouwer, Brummer, Calitz, Coetzee, Collins, Cordier, Cronje, De Beer, De Klerk, De Koker, De Swart, De Villiers, Dissels, Drotsky, Du Plessis, Du Plooy, Du Preez, Du Toit, Erasmus, Esterhuizen, Ferreira, Fouche, Fourie, Fowler, Greyling, Griesel, Grobbelaar , Grobler, Haasbroek, Hamilton, Havenga, Heckroodt, Hendrikse, Herholdt, Horak, Houman, Hugo, Human, Huygen, Jackson, Jacobs, Jansen, Jooste, Joubert, Kerr, Klassen, Kleinhans, Klopper, Kock, Kotze, Kruger, Lamprecht, Lanfield, Lategan, Lee, Liebenberg, Lombaard, Lopkins, Lorentz, Lotz, Louw, Lubbe, Maartens, Marais, Mosenger, Muller, Myburgh, Mynhardt, Nel, Nienaber, Norval,
Oberholzer, Olivagen, Olivier, Oosthuizen, Orlandini, Parkin, Peyper, Pienaar, Potgieter, Pretorius, Reinecke, Reneke, Richter, Roos, Roux, Schoeman, Scholtz, Schoonfeldt, Serfontein, Small, Snyman, Steenekamp, Steyn, Strauss, Strydom, Stuart, Swanepoel, Swart, Swarts, Tromp, Van der Linde, Van der Merwe, Van der Walt, Van Heerden, Van Jaarsveldt, Van Niekerk, Van Rensburg, Van Schalkwyk, Van Staden, Van Tonder, Van Vreden, Van Vuuren, Van Wyk, Van Zyl, Venter, Verwey, Viljoen, Visagie, Visser, Vorster, Wydeman,
Also look at the images of the memorial of this tragic event.
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