Part of the regular Klerksdorp cemetery, there is a set aside area of concentration camp gravestones, and on first sight these look like they might be original ones. On second sight, their even regularity and uniformity, along with randomly placed grave markers and name plaques, indicate otherwise, that these were ‘restored’ at some earlier point to look like a set of graves ought. Some of the name plaques are ‘original’, but this most likely means dating from the period after the War had ended. At the time few people had the resources to commission such things. Standing between this separate area and the rest of the cemetery is a tall memorial like a bell tower with a dedication stone, and to one side of it and dating from a later period are ‘the names of the dead’, etched onto granite and cemented inside a shelter with an overhanging top.
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