The bond between us and Nanjing has remained connected--the inheritance of peace by three foreign families
At 8:30 on the morning of July 1, the peaceful bell was struck at the State Memorial Square of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum by a number of special foreign families who had traveled to Nanjing with the "Flower of Peace" badge pinned to their chests.
82 years ago when the invading Japanese troops captured Nanjing, their ancestors German businessman John Rabe, American doctor Richard Brady and American missionary John Magee, joined hands to establish the Nanking Safety Zone at the risk of their own lives and did their best to shelter more than 200,000 Chinese civilians.
The bond between us and Nanjing has remained connected since then. The descendants of the international friends were bent on finding the footprints of their ancestors' work and life and started their participation at the five-day Nanjing Zijin Grass International Peace Summer Camp by visiting the Historical Memorial Hall of the Drum Tower Hospital, the former residence of John Rabe, the Nanjing Museum of the Site of Lijixiang Comfort Stations, and the Nanjing 12th Middle School.
