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Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938) Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum Archived 2013-08-06 at the Wayback Machine; Kirk A. Denton, Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China (University of Hawaii Press, 2014), pp. 143–49.
A monument at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall that says there were 300,000 victims, in multiple languages. Numerous factors complicate the estimation of an accurate death toll. [136] [137] Dead Chinese civilians near Xiaguan, their corpses deliberately burned by the Japanese. According to American historian Edward J. Drea:
John Rabe's former residence in Nanking (as it was then called when he lived there), July 2008. The John Rabe House (拉贝故居), located at Xiaofenqiao No. 1 (小粉桥1号) in Nanjing, China, was where John Rabe stayed during the Nanjing Massacre and protected more than 600 Chinese refugees in this house, and within its garden, from Japanese persecution.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has been observed annually since 2014, with ceremonies at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. The ceremony begins with the Chinese national anthem . [ 25 ] Sirens go off at 10:01 a.m. CST , and drivers stop and honk their horns.
Then in 1970, the Nanjing Government built the 10 meter-high North Martyrdom and 14 meter-long group of martyrs sculpture there. In 1984, the local government built a memorial hall in the southern part of the mausoleum and a 42-meter-high monument on the summit of the main peak.
The Memorial Hall, which collects documents, photos, and human remains from the massacre, added both a wing and a bronze statue dedicated to Chang in 2005. In 2017, the Iris Chang Memorial Hall was built in Huai'an, China. [21] [22] On November 9, 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. [23]
A statue of John Rabe in the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall Rabe's grave in Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Charlottenburg, re-erected in 2013. On 5 January 1950, Rabe died of a stroke. In 1997, his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing, where it received a place of honour at the massacre memorial site and still stands today.
The Nanking Safety Zone (Chinese: 南京安全區; pinyin: Nánjīng Ānquán Qū; Japanese: 南京安全区, Nankin Anzenku, or 南京安全地帯, Nankin Anzenchitai) was a demilitarized zone for Chinese civilians set up on the eve of the Japanese breakthrough in the Battle of Nanking (December 13, 1937).