A photo exhibition went underway Saturday in Nanjing to revoke people’s memory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre ahead of the upcoming National Memorial Day ceremony.
The Memory of Nanjing in the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, as the exhibition is called, falls into five parts that tell of the battle of Nanjing, the coming of the catastrophe, the survival and the struggling, the sparks of the war of resistance and Japans’ surrender and the trial of Japanese war criminals.
246 photos are exhibited to heroic battles waged by the Chinese army and civilians in their counterattack of the Japanese troops in the defense of Nanjing.
A number of files also revealed the atrocities committed by the Japanese troops during the Nanjing Massacre.
The exhibition also sheds light on the fact that the Jiangnan Cement Factory refused to provide cement for the Japanese forces in defiance of the Japanese occupation.
40 archival pieces were contributed by the Nanjing Private Museum of the War of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to reflect the historic fact that the people in Nanjing struggled against the Japanese invaders during the war.
On Dec 13, 1937, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and during the following six weeks bore witness to the inhumane disgrace and bloody massacre exerted on the city. No less than 300,000 innocent civilians and unarmed Chinese soldiers were brutally slaughtered in mass and individual beheadings, burying alive, burning, and killing races. More than 20,000 women were raped and many were then killed.
