This is Anna.
She’s thirty-four years old.
And she held both her children as they died in a British concentration camp.
Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1901.
Her farm is burned to the ground.
She and her two young children are marched behind barbed wire like animals.
The heat is suffocating.
Filthy tents crammed with thousands.
Almost no food. Poison water.
Measles and typhoid rip through the camp like fire.
Anna rocks her six-year-old daughter Maria until her tiny body goes still against her chest.
Weeks later, her eight-year-old son Pieter dies silently in her arms from starvation and typhoid.
She buries them both in the dry red earth, surrounded by hundreds of tiny fresh graves.
This was official British policy.
27,000 women and children died from deliberate neglect.
Bloemfontein, 1901. When putting civilians in concentration camps and letting them die was perfectly legal.
This was legal.
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