Shi Jia-xiu, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, died on December 20th, aged 94. 

Only 77 survivors are now alive as registered by Nanjing Japanese Invaders’ Victims Support Association.

"When the Japanese soldiers came, my mother escaped to the Guli county with my sisters, and we came back a week later. My sister and I shaved all our hair, walked in rags and dressed as boys, and often hid in the cellar.

Two women in the village, one called Chengzi, one called Xingzi, were sisters-in-law, both at their twenties. They hid in the cellar with 5 other people, but only to be found by a few Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers smoked them out, gang- raped them , and killed all the 7 people.

Many Chinese soldiers were marched by Japanese soldiers to Qiaogezhuang and got killed with machine guns. There were a few lucky ones not dead but wounded. My uncle, aunt and my mother carried back 7 that had not yet expired from the dead, hid them into a remote pit, and gave them rice and water. However, they all died of bad injury and my uncle buried all these people on the spot."

-- Living Testimony of Shi Jiaxiu