Memories of massacre made public

Nanjing Archives Bureau releases 100 testimonials of war atrocities

In her grievance form submitted to then-Nanjing mayor Ma Chaojun during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), the 80-year-old widow recalled how Japanese soldiers cleaved her granddaughter's skull with a bayonet and killed four other family members.

"After the Japanese soldiers broke into our house in the name of searching for Chinese soldiers, they accused my son Guodong of being a soldier and asked for money and property," the widow wrote.