China News Service, Nanjing, December 18 (Xu Shanshan) The Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders on China announced on the 18th that the Nanjing Massacre survivor He Xiaohe passed away in the early morning of December 18, 2020 at the age of 91.
The testimony of the survivors kept in the museum recorded He Xiaohe’s words: “I was born in 1929 and lived in Beixiaoshikou. A few days after the Japanese army entered the city in 1937, a few Japanese soldiers came to our place. I ran into an air-raid shelter and hid, but the Japanese soldiers discovered that they used machine guns to shoot at the people in the air-raid shelter, killing many people. At night, my mother and I were rescued from the air-raid shelter by Guo Xiulan's grandfather."
According to statistics from the memorial hall, several survivors will pass away in 2020. He Xiaohe is the fifth survivor who died this year. Currently, there are only 72 registered survivors certified by the Nanjing Japanese Invader Victims Aid Association.