This is a very formalised Gedenktuin. A formal covered gateway leads into it, while clearly demarcated perimeter walls enclose it and mark the boundaries. Bas reliefs of kappies and babies’ booties are set into the walls. The Gedenktuin area is completely covered over with stone and features faux-graves indicated by long lines of raised stones. Centre place and on a plinth is a memorial with ‘the names of the dead’, with the remains of the dead most likely encased within or beneath it. To one side there is a rough-hewn pyramid with a 1937 dedication and next to it there is a 1989 memorial pyramid, also in rough stone, added to with an inscription saying that the Gedenktuin was memorialised on 10 October 1999, a hundred years after the start of the war.
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