the WAR of IMAGERY

Illustrations and Photographic Credits

 

  1. Solitary Girl at Brandfort Camp, Unknown Photographer, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  2. Map of Southern Africa Showing the British Colonies and the Boer Republics, courtesy of the Canadian War Museum
  3. Christiaan de Wet Photograph, Unknown Photographer, General C. R. de Wet, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  4. Christiaan de Wet Poster, Jean Veber, ‘L’Assiette au beurre’, 1901, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  5. Le Petit Journal, De Wet’s exploits, 19 January 1902, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  6. Le Petit Journal, Arrival of Boer Generals in Paris, 26 October 1902, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  7. Kitchener Poster, Jean Veber, ‘L’Assiette au beurre’, 1901, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  8. Kitchener Photograph, Unknown Photographer, Kitchener in South Africa, 1901, photograph courtesy of the National Army Museum, London
  9. Burning Farm Building, Unknown Photographer, Burning a Boer Farm, 1901, photograph courtesy of the National Army Museum, London
  10. Women on the train platform from Johannesburg to Barberton Photograph, Unknown Photographer, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  11. Train Poster, Jean Veber, ‘L’Assiette au beurre’, 1901, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  12. Jews alighting from a train at Birkenau, Poland, 27 May 1944, Courtesy of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre
  13. Two women and two children in a tent in the Norvalspont Concentration Camp, Unknown Photographer, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  14. Family Camp Poster, Jean Veber, ‘L’Assiette au beurre’, 1901, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  15. Woman with raised arms poster, Jean Veber, ‘L’Assiette au beurre’, 1901, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  16. Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Louvre Museum, 1830, Bridgeman Education
  17. Pietà by Michelangelo in St. Peter’s Basilica, 1498–1499, <https://www.michelangelo.net/pieta/>
  18. Lizzie van Zyl in the camp hospital, attributed to Mr De Klerk, Bloemfontein, 1900 – 1901, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  19. The Body of Japie Berg at Bloemfontein, Unknown Photographer, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  20. Gijsbert Johannes Vermeulen, Unknown photographer, photograph courtesy of the War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
  21. Memorial Wall built with rocks from original graves, Irene Concentration Camp Memorial Cemetery, Author’s own photograph, 2022
  22. Irene Concentration Camp Memorial Cemetery, Author’s own photograph, 2022
  23. Memorial Angel at Bethulie Concentration Camp Memorial Cemetery, photograph courtesy of Monja Viljoen, 2022

    Video: Bethulie Camp Memorial Cemetery, video courtesy of Monja Viljoen, 2022

 

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Acknowledgements

Website designer: Monja Viljoen

French translations: Tom Cartwright and Joseph Gooddy