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Nanjing Massacre survivor, 90, dies

Yang Xiuying, a 90-year-old survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, died in Nanjing on Thursday, the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders announced. Yang was born on July 30, 1928. On Dec 13, 1937, the first day of the six-week Japanese rampage that claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people, her father, Yang Bingrong, was guarding a house with her uncle when they encountered a group of Japanese soldiers. Her father was stabbed to death while her uncle had a narrow escape. Yang moved to a refugee camp at Ginling College with family members. In her later testimony about the massacre, she said Japanese soldiers went to the camp to search for women. Her two sisters had to hide, and she witnessed many people being killed by the soldiers.