{"id":4948,"date":"2017-12-24T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2017-12-27T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T12:24:43","slug":"nanking-massacre-80th-anniversary-commemoration-from-the-eyes-and-words-of-eye-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2017\/12\/nanking-massacre-80th-anniversary-commemoration-from-the-eyes-and-words-of-eye-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanking Massacre 80th Anniversary Commemoration: From the Eyes and Words of Eye Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year (2017) marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, one of the worst atrocities in human history.\u00a0 It is a time in history that:<\/p>\n

atrocious cruelties were inflicted by one group of humans on another group of humans where within six weeks about 300,000 Chinese (including civilians, women and children) just in the city of Nanking were killed by the Japanese Imperial Army, and where about 20,000 women and girls were raped<\/li>\n
a group of courageous men and women (most were foreigners from Western countries), now called upstanders, who risked their own lives and set up an International Safety Zone in Nanking that sheltered and saved about 250,000 Chinese from being slaughtered and thousands of Chinese women and girls from being raped<\/li>\n
lessons can be learned, because similar types of atrocities can occur again in many parts of this world if we don’t learn from this part of history<\/li>\n
reminds us of the power of one, i.e., one person or a small group of persons can start a movement that can change the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Here is the complete Powerpoint presentation<\/a> that was presented on December 6, 2017 at the “Nanking Massacre 80th Anniversary Commemoration” at the Monmouth County Library Headquarter in Manalapan, New Jersey that was organized by the New Jersey Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (NJ-ALPHA). Since this complete file is very large (95 MB), it may take a couple of minutes to load, so have patience.\u00a0 Here is the much smaller Powerpoint presentation<\/a> without the embedded audio files (611 KB).<\/p>\n
This program presents the observations of eyewitnesses (Westerners, Chinese, and Japanese) that were recorded in their letters, diaries, movies, and interviews that provide undeniable evidence of the existence and magnitude of the Nanking Massacre, which is still denied by the Japanese government 72 years after the end of WWII.<\/p>\n
The attached complete Powerpoint presentation contains the following:<\/p>\n
1. The Internet link of a 26.5-minute documentary based on John Magee’s home movie filmed during the Nanking Massacre that was smuggled out of China and widely shown in the U.S. and the world in 1938 (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7R5N6qWScU<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
  This complete Powerpoint presentation provides a self-contained program that could be reused by someone else.\u00a0 Any organization who wants to present a program on the Nanking Massacre has my permission to use the above Powerpoint presentation, as long as the first page of the Powerpoint presentation is also shown.<\/p>\n
  For background music before the start of the program, the following musical pieces are excellent candidates [2]:<\/p>\n