It s been 86 years, why can t we forget?

Today, it is the 10th in our country.

National Memorial Day for the Victims of Nanjing.

86 years ago today.

The Japanese army invading China made it.

Tragic big **.

86 years have passed.

Why can't we forget?

Hope for their life story.

can give you the answer.

86 years ago. Xia Shuqin is only 8 years old.

She lives in the courtyard of No. 5 Xinlu Junction in Nanjing.

It's a big family.

Parents, grandparents, grandmothers.

Two older sisters, two younger sisters and Shuqin.

A total of 9 people live together.

Happiness knows no bounds. It's an ordinary family.

A very ordinary courtyard.

But that winter 86 years ago.

Everything that happens here.

Make No. 5 New Junction the city.

A historical testimony that can never be forgotten.

The memorial hall of the compatriots killed in Nanjing of the Japanese invasion of China was restored.

December 13, 1937.

A group of Japanese soldiers slammed the door while shouting.

The landlord, Ha Guoliang, hurriedly opened the door.

The Japanese soldiers who came in were silent.

So they shot him.

Shuqin's father hurriedly ran forward.

Kneel down for the Japanese soldiers.

begged them to spare the lives of the family.

Before he could finish speaking, a gunshot rang out.

My father also fell to the ground.

Several Japanese soldiers rushed to the mother's room.

Put the mother hiding under the table.

And the one-year-old sister pulled out.

After stabbing his one-year-old sister to death with a bayonet.

Then he killed Shuqin's mother.

The four Shuqin sisters didn't have time to hide.

They were put under the quilt by their grandmothers and hidden.

Japanese soldiers burst into the room.

The 16-year-old eldest sister and the 14-year-old second sister.

It was still discovered by the Japanese army.

My grandfather and grandmother tried their best to protect their two sisters.

He was brutally stabbed to death with a bayonet by the Japanese soldiers.

Two sisters were killed by Japanese soldiers.

Shuqin heard screams in the bed.

I trembled with fear and began to cry.

A Japanese soldier walked towards her in the bed.

Three stabs in a row. Shuqin also fainted in pain.

I don't know how long it took.

The cry of her 4-year-old sister woke Shuqin up.

My sister cries for her mother.

I can't walk.

Only crawl over her.

Shake this and don't wake up, shake that and don't wake up.

When I went outside, I saw my mother sleeping on the edge of the table.

without clothes".

But they didn't even have time to grieve.

Because there was a group of Japanese soldiers living on the opposite side.

The two children could only hide.

In a room full of the corpses of loved ones.

Secretly eat a little pot when it's dark.

Build a bench and scoop water from the tank.

The sisters spent it.

14 days of hunger, cold, and fear.

He wasn't saved until he was found by a neighbor.

Xia Shuqin and her sister, 1943.

American John Magee heard about this **.

Rushed to the scene. Shot with a 16mm camera.

The scene after the death of Xia Shuqin's relatives.

Came to the scene with John Magee.

and 8-year-old Xia Shuqin.

She told Maggie about what had happened to her.

We can't imagine this little girl.

How word by word.

Recall those gunshots and screams.

Frightened and dead.

But she ended up with a knife wound.

I survived strongly with my sister.

John Magee based on the accounts of Xia Shuqin and neighbors.

A whole page of instructions was written.

The tragedy that occurred at No. 5 New Junction is described in detail.

This is in the caption of all the videos he left behind.

The longest paragraph.

In 1937, John Magee photographed the scene after the murder of Xia Shuqin's family.

Xia Shuqin's story.

It was also written in a diary by another person.

John Magee found 2 little girls.

One is 4 years old and the other is 8 years old.

All of their families were killed.

They stood by their mother's body.

Spent 14 days in one room.

until they were rescued by their neighbors".

This man is Rabe.

1937 year.

In the face of the German embassy's exhortation to evacuate Nanjing.

Rabe decided to take the risk and stay.

He wrote in his diary:

Today has been kind to me for 30 years.

My host country is experiencing serious difficulties.

Shouldn't we try to help them?

At least save some people, right?

What if these were our own compatriots?”

After that, Rabe became.

Chairman of the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone.

He hired someone to build a bomb shelter in his yard.

On the evening of December 12.

The Japanese artillery bombardment was fierce again.

The firelight reflected the night sky in the south of the city.

Rabe wrote in his diary:

The refugees squeezed all the way to the edge of the bomb shelter.

Someone was banging the two courtyard doors.

Women and children begged us to let them in.

Some bold men.

Climb over the courtyard wall from the back of the German school.

I want to enter my hospital for protection.

I can't listen to this kind of pleading.

So I opened both doors.

Let in all the people who want to come in."

In this not very large compound.

At its peak, it housed more than 600 refugees.

An air-raid shelter in the courtyard of Rabe's residence.

Rabe and the others are on the move every day.

Protect refugees from Japanese troops, and robbery.

The atrocities of the Japanese army were also recorded.

In the name of the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone.

Constant letters to Japanese diplomats, ** atrocities of the Japanese army.

After more than half a month of terror.

Nanjing ushered in the New Year of 1938.

Refugees surrounded Rabe.

Offered with red ink.

New Year's greetings written on white wrapping paper.

New Year's greeting letter.

Respectfully write a few lines with a brush.

Mr. Rabe: Congratulations on a blessed new year!

Billions are rolling in!

Refugees in your shelter.

1938 year.

Under the bombing of Japanese planes, Rabe worked in a helmet.

February 1938.

Rabe carries a set.

A copy of John Magee's footage of the atrocities in Nanjing.

Leave Nanjing. He lectured all over Berlin.

and a film by John Magee.

1946 year.

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Japanese war criminals in Tokyo.

John Magee testified.

He used that 16mm camera.

Video footage taken.

It has become the ironclad evidence of the Japanese invasion of China in Nanjing.

John Magee testified before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

1995 year.

Xia Shuqin, a little girl who was only 8 years old at the time.

It's over 60 years old.

On this day, a young girl.

Came to Nanjing to interview Xia Shuqin.

The interview took place in the shade of a tree in the open air.

Xia Shuqin told her.

The story of No. 5 New Junction.

He also showed her the scars on his body.

This girl is Zhang Chunru.

Zhang Chunru is at Xia Shuqin's house.

In 1997, Zhang Chunru wrote.

Nanjing**: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II was published.

This is the first comprehensive record.

An English book on the atrocities committed by the Japanese army against the city of Nanjing.

He has been a New York Times bestseller for 10 consecutive weeks.

When Zhang Chunru wrote "Nanjing Da**".

But in his twenties.

She was in the dark, imagining what it was like to be killed.

In the mind she hears stories every day.

String together one picture at a time.

At night, she sat in the house.

Surrounded by a bunch of ** that she can't see.

Look at the maps on the wall.

imagine yourself on the spot".

Zhang Chunru's mother said

Although Chunru has never experienced that cruel war.

Also born in the United States.

But she always thinks her roots are in China."

See Japanese right-wingers.

Vainly trying to erase and distort historical facts.

Zhang Chunru has always felt that she has a moral responsibility.

You have to be brave enough to speak out."

Collected at Yale University.

Information about the history of Nanjing.

Zhang Chunru discovers the existence of John Rabe.

He began to look for Rabe's descendants.

After a tireless search.

She finally got in touch.

John S. Rabe's granddaughter, Ursula Reinhardt.

Reinhardt kept it carefully.

Grandpa's papers, diary, and **.

Among them is extremely precious.

Records of Nanjing University.

Under the facilitation of Zhang Chunru.

13 December 1996.

Rabe's Diary was made available to the world.

Year 2000.

Xia Shuqin, who is over the age of old.

Decided to go to court.

At that time, Japanese right-wing writers.

slandered Xia Shuqin as a "false witness".

Since October 2000.

Tan Zhen, Wu Mingxiu and other lawyers**.

Xia Shuqin sued Japanese right-wingers for defamation infringement.

It is the first to prosecute Japanese right-wingers in China.

Judgment of Nanjing Xuanwu District People's Court.

The old man Xia Shuqin won the lawsuit.

Subsequently, Tan Zhen and the Nanjing Lawyers Aid Group.

Accompany the elderly Xia Shuqin to Japan.

Fight against the Japanese right.

This is a nationally and even world-famous case.

It lasted for 9 years.

During this period, Tan Zhen has put in great efforts and painstaking efforts.

After winning the case in China.

In the face of Japanese right-wing authors.

Lawsuit against the elder Xia Shuqin in Japan.

Tan Zhen and the Nanjing lawyer group chose to go to Japan to respond to the lawsuit.

And together with the local lawyer group in Japan.

A counterclaim against Japanese right-wing authors was launched.

A court fight against Japanese right-wingers.

2 November 2007.

The Tokyo District Court in Japan rendered its verdict.

Counterclaim against Xia Shuqin.

Author of the book "The Thorough Examination of Nanjing Da**".

Higashi-Nakano Shudo and Publishing House Exhibition and Transfer Agency.

Judgment in the Defamation case:

The plaintiff in the counterclaim prevailed.

The defendant was ordered to pay compensation of 4,500,000 yen to the plaintiff.

On June 30, 2006, Xia Shuqin, accompanied by Chinese and Japanese lawyers, walked into the Tokyo District Court.

5 February 2009.

The Supreme Court of Japan v. Xia Shuqin's right to reputation.

A final ruling was rendered.

This means that Xia Shuqin's old man has the right to reputation case.

We have won all cases in both domestic and Japanese courts.

A team of Nanjing lawyers based on Tan Zhen.

It has also gone down in history.

Under the promotion of lawyer Tan Zhen.

December 23, 2017.

Maintain the historical truth of Nanjing.

The "Grand Alliance of Lawyers" was established.

Committed to the protection of the rights and interests of survivors in Nanjing.

Research on legal issues in Nanjing.

and promoting civil litigation.

The elderly Xia Shuqin attended the inaugural meeting of the "Lawyers Alliance for Safeguarding the Historical Truth of Nanjing".

Lawyer Tan Zhen. Here's their later story:

Xia Shuqin is now 94 years old.

December 3 of this year.

At the "Nanjing Da** Victims' Family Memorial Event".

She faltered.

Commemorate 7 loved ones.

Crying about how much he misses his loved ones.

As long as the body allows.

I must come to the memorial service!”

Her granddaughter Xia Yuan.

Take the baton from my grandmother.

With my son.

Become the inheritor of Nanjing's historical memory.

This history continues to be told.

In 1953, John Magee died.

Year 2002.

David Magee, son of John Magee.

It was used by my father in Nanjing.

The camera was donated to the memorial.

When he returned to the United States, he sent it again.

It was kept in his house for more than 60 years.

4 boxes of Nanjing large ** content film film.

80 years after the Nanjing Great **.

John Magee's grandson, Chris Magee, returned to Nanjing.

Searching for people and places that appeared in my grandfather's films.

The grandfather and grandson shot one by one.

A shot reborn.

Their footage recorded Nanjing.

Witness the history and present of Nanjing.

Above: Grandfather John Magee photographed the scene of Xia Shuqin's family after being victimized in 1937.

Below: In 2018, grandson Chris Magee and Xia Shuqin took a group photo.

Above: Grandfather John Magee photographed a burning house in 1937.

Below: Grandson Chris Magee photographed the house from the same angle in 2018.

Above: Grandfather John Magee poses with the wounded at the Drum Tower Hospital in 1937.

Below: Grandson Chris Magee with medical staff at Drum Tower Hospital in 2018.

After the end of World War II.

Life for Rabe's family is extremely difficult.

At the beginning of 1948, the news that Rabe's family was destitute.

It was transmitted to Nanjing.

Nanjing citizens have generously donated money and materials.

In March of that year, the donation was in Switzerland.

Milk powder, sausages, coffee were bought.

Foods such as butter and jam.

Divided into 4 large parcels and sent to Rabe.

June 1948.

Rabe sent a thank you note.

He said in the letter.

This kind act of the people of Nanjing.

It gave him the courage and confidence to live.

In 1950, Rabe died.

In 2013.

With the help of the city of Nanjing**.

The construction of the Rabe Memorial Cemetery was completed.

Today, Rabe's cemetery is brought by Nanjing.

Surrounded by bamboo, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums.

On the tombstone is the rain flower stone of Nanjing.

In 2020, Thomas Rabe, grandson of John Rabe.

Ask the Chinese side to be the hospital where he is staying.

Provision of anti-epidemic drug assistance.

Soon, the materials donated by the Nanjing people were sent to Germany.

The box is shaded with purple gold grass and dove of peace.

A famous quote from Goethe is prominently printed.

The tree of life is evergreen".

There is also one stamped next to it.

The seal used by Mr. John Rabe.

There are four words "well-being".

This is a thank you from Nanjing people for more than 80 years.

After the completion of the book.

Zhang Chunru suffered.

Retaliation and harassment by Japanese right-wing forces.

She kept receiving threatening letters and **.

This makes her constantly change her ** number.

I don't dare to casually disclose information about my husband and children.

She used to say to a friend.

She has lived in fear all these years.

Later she developed depression.

In 2004, she shot herself in her car.

He was 36 years old.

In 2017.

Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall.

In her hometown of Huai'an, it was officially opened to the public.

June 12, 2020.

Lawyer Tan Zhen passed away.

The old man Xia Shuqin cried and recalled talking about the lawyer:

The lawsuit with the Japanese right-wing has been fought for almost 10 years.

Lawyer Tan and Lawyer Wu litigated for us.

What a sacrifice for us.

Such a dedication is really unrequitable.

I can only say it to him and Lawyer Wu.

Thank you. Thank you for being so nice to me!”

August 22 of the same year.

Tan Zhen's family will talk about Zhen before his death.

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Memorial Hall of compatriots killed in Nanjing with the Japanese invasion of China.

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Memorial Hall of the Compatriots Killed in Nanjing of the Japanese Invasion of China.