Plainly dressed in a dark gray suit, 87-year-old Xia Shuqin seemed no different from any other suburban Chinese lady. However, her weatherworn face and her determined eyes suggested that her story was different: She had survived the Nanjing Massacre.
It was Dec. 13, 1937. "Around 9 or 10 a.m., the Japanese invaded our house," Xia remembered vividly. "My father was killed immediately after they broke in. My grandparents, my parents, my sisters, everyone was scared and crying. Seven out of nine of my family members were killed."
For the first time, Xia was invited to the United States to film a documentary about the Nanjing Massacre by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.
At a welcome gathering last Sunday, Xia shared her story with the Chinese community in Los Angeles for the first time.
Only Xia and her then four-year-old sister survived. "I was stabbed three times and passed out. When I woke up, I found myself covered with blood," Xia said with tears in her eyes.
Her legs were trembling but she insisted to stand on the stage for the whole speech. "I heard my sister crying and looking for our mom. But everyone else had died."
It was not easy for an 87-year-old to travel across the world, but Xia made it in order to preserve her testimony, to let more people know what had happened in Nanjing in 1937, since the Japanese government has been consistently trying to deny the Nanjing Massacre.
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