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Relatives of victims of the Nanjing Massacre, survivors, the descendants of survivors and student representatives gathered at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 3, 2024. /CFP
Relatives of victims of the Nanjing Massacre, as well as survivors, the descendants of survivors and student representatives, on Wednesday gathered at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders to pay tribute to those who lost their lives 87 years ago.
Thursday is Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese festival during which people pay tribute to the dead and worship their ancestors.
"My father was only nine years old at the time. The war made him an orphan, and that painful memory stayed with him all his life," said Chang Xiaomei, whose late father was a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, in front of a wall that bears the names of 10,665 victims.
According to official figures, as of early March, only 36 survivors remain.
The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937. Over the course of six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in what has been deemed one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.