Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, February 16 (Reporter Jiang Fang) The reporter learned from the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of Japanese Invaders on the 16th that two survivors of the Nanjing Massacre died on February 15, including Yi Lanying at the age of 99 and Tao Chengyi at the age of 89.
Yilanying, a survivor of Nanjing Massacre. (Photo provided by the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of Japanese Invaders)
Yi Lanying was born on May 4, 1926. When the Japanese army captured Nanjing, Yi Lanying and his sister moved from Laofang Lane on Shengzhou Road to the refugee area of Wutiao Lane. He once saw a Japanese soldier stabbing a young man in a shirt and breakfast to death with a bayonet. Yi Lanying himself was knocked out by a Japanese officer. She also saw a team of Japanese soldiers searching the households and kidnapped seventy or eighty young and middle-aged men.
This experience caused the young Yi Lanying to be extremely physically and mentally frightened, and it lingered like a nightmare, and it also caused the root cause of palpitations, palpitations and tinnitus. When she was alive, she often said that she hoped that future generations would never forget the innocent people who were killed.
Tao Chengyi, a survivor of Nanjing Massacre. (Photo provided by the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of Japanese Invaders)
Tao Chengyi was born on May 24, 1936. When the Japanese army captured Nanjing, his father Tao Shidong was captured by the Japanese army on Huaqiao Road in the refugee area and was killed by the Japanese army. At the same time, his seventh uncle Jiang Jinrong and his sixth cousin Jiang Jiazhi were also captured and killed by the Japanese army.
"After my father was killed by the Japanese army, the family lost the pillars, and the mother took her children to make a difficult life by doing small business. It was the war that ruined my childhood." Tao Chengyi once said during his lifetime that he often reminded his descendants: "Our country has finally become strong, so we can't be paralyzed!"
As of now, there are only 28 living survivors registered by the Japanese victims of the invasion of China and the Nanjing Massacre Historical Memory Inheritance Association.
