A hospital badge, pierced by a bullet. Once pinned to the coat of a healer or patient, this emblem reads: Shanghai Civilian Women and Children Hospital. Now, it carries a wound of its own—a 6.5 millimeter bullet still lodged at its center.

In the chaos after the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, even places of healing were not spared. Was its owner a doctor rushing to save lives, or a patient seeking refuge? History left no answer, only this fragment of memory. 

Does your family have a story of courage or survival from the war? Share it with CGTN's global campaign, "Echoes of History: Our WWII Memories," and help keep those memories alive for the world to remember. 

(Contributor: Zhou Yanjun)