China News Service, March 23. According to the WeChat public account of the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders, Wang Suming, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, died in the hospital at noon on the 23rd at the age of 87.
There are only 58 survivors registered by the Nanjing Japanese Invasion Victims Aid Association.
The WeChat public account of "Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders" tells the story of the old man's life:
Wang Suming's childhood was very sad.
Her original surname was Yang. She was just 2 years old in 1937. She lived in Xianhemen with her grandmother, parents, and siblings. Her father was the principal of Longtan Middle School at the time.
After the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, his father was arrested by the Japanese army on the charge of "saboteur" and was killed soon after.
The mother was unable to support her children, so she gave all four of their siblings to other families for adoption, with four siblings and four surnames.
She was adopted by a family surnamed Wang, and her name was changed to Wang Suming.
Wang Suming's childhood was dark, but she used her own light and heat to illuminate the rest of her life and warm others.
She is a public welfare expert, and she has volunteered in the community for more than 20 years after retirement; she was also the oldest volunteer in Qinhuai District, and was honored as "grandmother lime" by everyone; she has been without a title for more than ten years "Community Director"; she also loves kittens, and is nicknamed "the cat slave grandma"...
Since retiring in 1990, Grandma Wang has continued to volunteer in the Mafu Street community.
He has successively served as a member of the neighborhood committee and director of the community aging committee.
When she is in good health, no matter it is hot or cold, windy or snowy, like ordinary social workers, she volunteers to give to the community on time.
During the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, Grandma Wang took the initiative to ask to be a volunteer and became the oldest Youth Olympic volunteer in Qinhuai District. She was called "Grandma Lime" by the residents.
"During that time, she came to the community at 7:00 every morning, put on the red armband of 'Qinhuai Ping An Volunteer' and helped the community on duty." The community staff recalled that Wang Suming also organized community youth to actively promote the knowledge of the Youth Olympic Games.
As a "non-staff social worker" in the community, whenever an elderly person comes to ask for help, Wang Suming will listen patiently, comfortably, and solve problems in a timely manner.
Community resident Zhu Yuexia, the former family of five lived in a 40-square-meter house, living in poverty, relying entirely on the old man's pension to make ends meet.
For more than 20 years, Wang Suming has insisted on going to the door to talk and chat with the old man, providing volunteer services for the old man on a regular or irregular basis, and visiting the old man with money and goods during the festivals.
Last summer, when the staff of the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders came to visit Grandma Wang Suming, they saw a pile of thick certificates of honor in her home.
At that time, the old man said to the staff: "I am an old party member and a senior volunteer. I am on the front line of volunteer work in the fight against SARS, the Olympics, and the Youth Olympics. During the epidemic, I even donated 2,000 yuan!"