133 historical artifacts were donated to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum last Thursday morning, the museum said on Sunday.
107 of the 133 historical artifacts were donated by Lu Zhaoning, an American-Chinese who was born and raised in Nanjing.
These include 16 volumes of original 8mm and 16mm film, which recorded international events in the world from 1937-1945. The film of 1937 included the Japanese bombing of Shanghai and Nanjing.
The headline of the Chicago Tribune on December 9, 1937 reported the news that the Japanese army swarmed into Nanjing and broke into the Gaoqiao Gate on the outskirts of Nanjing.
For more than 10 years, Lu Zhaoning has been tracing for historical materials in the United States about the Nanjing Massacre and the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Tang Kai, an amateur historian on the Battle of Nanjing, donated 12 historical artifacts to the museum.
A hand drum used by a Chinese soldier engaged in the Battle of Nanjing was the first time the museum has collected.
Lesson 46 of a textbook of the Wartime People's School in Fujian Province, printed in August 1938, recorded the Japanese army burning and killing in Nanjing, especially the killing of 100 Chinesepeople by two Japaneselieutenants.
The textbook, published only half a year after the Nanjing Massacre, was the earliest textbook in China that recorded the Nanjing Massacre.
Other historical artifacts include the shells, grenade covers, and gun sharpnels unearthed in battlefields near the Zijin Mountain of Nanjing, which shed light on the deadly battles between the defending Chinese army and the invading Japanese troops.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
