In January 2020, the headline "Looking for The Descendants of Martyrs" public welfare project cooperated with the Martyrs' Cemetery in Dongchang District, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, to find relatives for martyrs in the cemetery who have not yet contacted their relatives and have names and places of origin.
A total of 1,076 martyrs were buried in the Dongchang District Martyrs' Cemetery (including 284 tombs of famous martyrs and 792 tombs of unknown martyrs), which is currently the largest number of martyrs' cemeteries in Jilin Province. After verification by the Dongchang District Martyrs' Cemetery and the toutiao search staff, there are still 23 volunteer martyrs with names and places of origin, and their relatives have not yet been contacted. Headline searchers will use the precise geographical location pop-up technology to successively pop-up these martyrs' information to the martyrs' hometowns.
This time, we will search for the relatives of the following martyrs:
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Van Der Waals Martyrs' Tomb
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Dongchang District Martyrs Cemetery was founded in late 1950, the Martyrs Cemetery is located in dongchang District Huantong Township Stone Shed Village north of the pine forest, a total area of 49,000 square meters, at present, is jilin province buried the largest number of volunteer martyrs the largest number of martyrs cemetery.
Top view of the cemetery
Dongchang District Martyrs Cemetery was named "Tonghua Patriotism Education Base" by Tonghua Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in October 2008, "Jilin Provincial National Defense Education Base" by Jilin Provincial People's Government in June 2009, "Jilin Provincial Patriotism Education Base" by Jilin Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government in May 2011, and "Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by Tonghua Municipal People's Government in November 2012. In December 2019, it was rated as a provincial martyrs' memorial facility protection management unit by the People's Government of Jilin Province.
Martyrs' cemetery area
The cemetery martyrs' cemetery is built in the mountains and forests of cangsong cypress, the terrain is gentle, using lawn-style tombs, the central 120 extension of the cemetery is above the main Yong Road of rice granite rock, and there is a 10.25-meter-high martyrs' monument, and the black marble stele is engraved with 13 large golden characters of "Chinese the martyrs of the People's Volunteer Army are immortal". There is a memorial square 25 meters below the monument, with an area of 500 square meters, which can accommodate 500 people at a time. In front of the square, there is a 6-meter-high and 42-meter-long heroic wall, on which all the British names of Dongchang District are engraved in a row.
Due to multiple reasons such as the lack of information about the martyrs, the lack of archives, and the inconvenience of transportation, many martyrs buried in the cemetery have not yet contacted their relatives. After collation and verification, there are 23 martyrs with names and places of origin who have not yet contacted their relatives, and the headline seekers will successively push the information of these martyrs to the martyrs' hometowns through accurate geographical location pop-up technology.
Martyrs' Monument
The memorial hall in the cemetery was built in 2012, and the plates in the museum record the immortal poems left by the people of Tonghua on the Korean battlefield on the Korean battlefield in front of artillery fire and the joint efforts of the military and the people to rescue the wounded of the volunteer army and the heroic martyrs of the Tonghua volunteer army. Through the plates and the objects of war, we can see the hardships of heroic volunteer soldiers fighting with the enemy and the heroism of fighting with the enemy through the physical objects of war.
memorial
Commemorate the deeds of the martyrs, comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, inherit the red gene, and tell the red story well. Today's headlines public welfare searcher launched the "Search for the Descendants of Martyrs" project, and cooperated with the Tonghua Dongchang District Martyrs Cemetery to jointly search for the martyrs who were buried in the northeast. In the past successful cases, the media relay to find the descendants of martyrs, played a great role, today's headlines sincerely invite media across the country to participate in the "search for martyrs descendants of the media volunteer service group".
If there are clues related to the descendants of the martyrs, please contact the headlines to find people (mailbox: [email protected]), and there will be special staff to verify and follow up on the information.