Hello Everyone I found the discussions about the Anglo-Boer War very interesting. I did history at a very Afrikaans school. I learned more about the Napoleon Wars, Civil War in America and Louis the VX than wars in our own country. On 16th of December we use to attend church and lay a wreath at the little Voortrekker Monument and then went home to bake cookies etc for Christmas. Our domestic worker was listening very attentively to the story of Blood River on the radio. She then told us the story according to what her grand parents told them. Vast difference. My grandmother and children were in Langlaagte Concentration Camp. She told us a lot about the conditions there, the measles that killed a lot of children and the poor food they had to eat. She also repeated many stories told by a lady to the children in the camp. I regret that I never wrote them down. She had some colourful sayings directly translated from English. I only learned the correct sayings once I went to school- to my embarressment. My daughter was learning at school about "hostels" - a nice friendly place for miners to live in. Where they did Dancing and singing over the weekends. This was in the late 80's and she was watched the news about fighting at hostels and people gettting killed. she asked me if that is the same hostel she is learning about at school. In the exam she was asked for a discription of a hostel. She wrote down what she saw on TV and I was called in to explain what nonsense I am teaching my children. Two years later when my son learned about hostels he was told it is a place where miners live. Aus is a tiny place between Keetmanshoop and Luderitz with only a shop with ice cold cooldrinks. There are wild horses in that area. I do not know where they came from but was lucky to see them once. History will always be influenced by who is in charge. It is up to us to educate and inform. May you be blessed over the Festive Season. Magda Badenhorst-Begeman Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] concentration camps/ WW1 POWs > Lynn There was a POW camp for German troops captured in and around the > then > German South West Africa 1915. It was at Aus on the Keetmanshoop/Luderitz > railway. I have a list of some of them. Many died in the 1918 flu. I got > this small booklet from Germany and later found it is available in > Namibia. > Patricia Frykberg > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Lyn Oakes" <lynne.oakes@virgin.net> > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:55 PM > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] concentration camps/ WW1 POWs > >> I have been following the thread on the Boer War concentration camps. >> Like >> Pat, I enjoy learning history from real, "on the ground", stories to get >> a >> better idea of how people lived aside from official history. >> >> Are there any such records available (on line, hopefully) of First World >> War >> POW camps in South Africa? My German grandfather, arrested in what was >> Southern Rhodesia, spent the war in a pow camp in Pietermaritzburg. >> Grandpa >> is a major brickwall in my research and as I am retiring shortly I am >> looking for anything to help knock a few chinks into his family. >> >> Season's greetings from a rapidly chilling UK >> >> Lynette >> Surrey >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1415 / Virus Database: 2102/4074 - Release Date: 12/11/11 >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1415 / Virus Database: 2102/4073 - Release Date: 12/10/11 > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1415 / Virus Database: 2102/4073 - Release Date: 12/10/11