The graves of the concentration camp dead are located in the town’s Commercial Road cemetery. Other memorials present include those to the original Voortrekkers. The memorial to the camp women and children is an undated obelisk, but likely to date from the period soon after the end of the war. The graves areas are demarcated in blocks only, not as individual graves. Some headstones with names and dates have been incorporated, but these seem to have belonged to ‘ordinary’ townspeople who died. There is also a small War Graves Commission marker-device, placed near the memorial to achieve a Gedenktuin-like effect. Along one side near the perimeter is a long and deep wall which may hold the actual remains of the dead, while ‘the names of the dead’ have been etched on stone and placed on the top.
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