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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.
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.
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.
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 National Revolutionary Army War Memorial Cemetery in Nanjing was used for burials between 1931 and 1935. It is located at Purple Mountain in the east of Nanjing, and lies west of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum , occupying about one square kilometer.
In 1985, the Memorial Hall for Nanjing Massacre victims was built by the Nanjing Municipal Government in remembrance of the victims and to raise awareness of the Nanjing Massacre. It is located near a site where thousands of bodies were buried, called the "pit of ten thousand corpses" wàn rén kēng ( Chinese : 万人坑 ; pinyin : Wàn rén ...
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall is a museum built by the Nanjing Municipal Government to memorialize the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing massacre, the survivors, and those who tried to protect the people of Nanjing during the atrocity. In the museum, there is a memorial to Minnie Vautrin.