Today is the eighth National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Recently, the reporter learned during the interview that a veteran of Yizheng spent four years searching for six survivors of the Nanjing Massacre and leaving a testimony mark.
Leave a certificate for survivors of the Nanjing Massacre
"A few years ago, I searched for veterans of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression across the country, leaving red handprints for the veterans and recording their experiences in the War of Resistance." Li Chenxing, a veteran of Yizheng, said, "A veteran who participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang suggested that I also leave a testimony mark for the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. His words reminded me that I had been searching for survivors of the Nanjing Massacre ever since. ”
For four years, Li Chenxing left testimony marks for six Survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, including Ge Daorong. In October, he found Ge Daorong, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, leaving behind his handprints and testimonies. A few days ago, six survivors of the Nanjing Massacre collectively spoke out at the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Invasion of China, telling history and praying for peace, and Ge Daorong was one of them.
As of now, only 61 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre are still alive, with an average age of more than 90 years old. Li Chenxing said that of the six survivors he searched, each survivor had more or less scars from that year.
Touched by the spirit of the survivor's home country
In October this year, Li Chenxing visited Ge Daorong, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre.
"Only when there is a country can there be a home," elder Ge Daorong lamented many times in his conversation with me." Li Chenxing said that the old man was born in 1927, only 10 years old when the Nanjing Massacre occurred, when he and his family hid in the refugee area to survive, uncle and two uncles were brutally killed by the Japanese army at home, he himself in the refugee area was also intruded by the Japanese army with a bayonet stabbed in the thigh, the scar is still there.
"Ge Daorong recalled that tragic history with tears, and he still remembered sneaking out of the refugee area at night to find food, and seeing piles of dead people and rivers of blood everywhere." Li Chenxing, who had been to Ge Daorong's house, said that the old man's residence was not large, but it was spotlessly cleaned, and the sign of "Glorious House" and the martyr's honor certificate of the old man's brother, who died in the liberation war, hung on the wall.
Li Chenxing introduced that after the surrender of Japan, Ge Daorong worked as a driver in Nanjing, worked in the Gulou District Government after liberation, and later transferred to the Public Security Bureau until retirement. During the conversation, Ge Daorong said: "As long as I live, I will tell that testimony." Over the years, Ge Daorong has insisted on participating in various testimonial activities to tell this painful memory to more people.
Let more people remember that history
Ge Daorong said that the names of the three relatives killed in his family were engraved on the wall of the list of victims of the Nanjing Massacre in the memorial hall of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese army invading China.
On the same day, When Li Chenxing left a red handprint and testimony for Ge Daorong and prepared to return to Yizheng, the elderly Ge Daorong sent him to the door of the community and said: "We can never forget that period of history, and Japan still owes us a public apology." ”
"The testimony marks of the six survivors of the Nanjing Massacre will be displayed together with the imprints of the anti-japanese war experience of more than 200 veterans, so that more people can remember that period of history." Li Chenxing said that at present, there are only 61 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and as there are fewer and fewer survivors, I hope that more people will relay the testimony mark to future generations to remember and learn from this history.
Correspondent Yuntang reporter Meng Jian