On December 5, Xiang Yuansong, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, died at the age of 94. Up to now, there are only 54 survivors registered by the Nanjing Aid Association for the Victims of Atrocities by Japanese Invaders.

Xiang Yuansong was born in 1928. After the fall of Nanjing, the nine-year-old boy lost two relatives. He clearly remembered that his brother Xiang Yuangao was captured by the Japanese soldiers in 1937 and imprisoned in the warehouse of the coal port before being shot and burned collectively. His fourth uncle Xiang Zhonglin was also killed by the Japanese. On the way to find the corpses of his relatives, Xiang Yuansong witnessed the corpses piled up on the bank of the Yangtze River. Later, he hid with his parents in the Baotaqiao refugee area and survived.

This memory has been imprinted in the old man's heart. Every Tomb Sweeping Day, he would visit the place where his relatives were killed. In the past few years, when the old man was in good health, he would bring the photos of his dead relatives to the MemorialHall’s "wailing wall" on every Tomb Sweeping Day and National Memorial Day to pay tribute to them. Xiang once said sadly, "The shock and grief that the human tragedy brought to our family has continued to this day, and we will never forget it."