4 survivors of Nanjing Massacre die
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Four survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre during World War II have died since the beginning of this year, putting the number of survivors at around 90, according to an assistance group.
At the memorial hall of the Nanjing Massacre victims in Nanjing, commemorative lights representing Wang Cuiying, Chen Fengying, Chen Yulan and Shen Guiying have darkened, signaling their passing away.
In the 1980s, China started to register the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, in which Japanese invaders slaughtered about 300,000 Chinese during a six-week rampage after they captured the city, which was China’s capital at the time. Initially, more than 1,000 survivors were recorded.
“The death of each of them is the loss of our historical memory,” said Zhang Jianjun, curator of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
Results of a study on the survivors’ health unveiled late last year showed that they were weaker than elderly people who had not experienced the traumatic events.
The research, led by an institute dedicated to the Nanjing Massacre history and global peace under the memorial hall, studied 54 survivors and 60 senior citizens in a control group. Over 30 percent of the surveyed survivors showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, Zhang said.
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