Nanjing massacre survivor dies at age of 95
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A Nanjing Massacre survivor died at the age of 95 yesterday, reducing the number of registered survivors to 70, said the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
Cai Lihua was the second survivor to die this year.
鈥淚n the winter of 1937, Japanese soldiers suddenly broke into my house. I watched with my own eyes as they tied my father鈥檚 hands and hung him on a wooden ladder before brutally stabbing his eyes with a bayonet, making egg-sized holes in my father鈥檚 eyes, and then killed him with several shots,鈥 Cai once said in a testimony.
鈥淢y mother was also stabbed in the back and a bullet grazed her scalp. I was there and narrowly escaped by hiding under a table.鈥
The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed about 300,000 civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.
The Chinese government has preserved the survivors鈥 testimony, recorded in both written documents and video footage. These records of the massacre were listed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register in 2015.
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