(ECNS) -- A donation ceremony by Chinese American Lu Zhaoning was held at the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall in the capital of East China's Jiangsu province, on Thursday, marking Lu's seventh donation of World War II materials to the hall.
This time, Lu donated 37 items (or sets) of wartime artifacts, including English-language newspapers reporting on Japanese air raids over Nanjing, foreign magazines and newspapers documenting Chinese military and civilian resistance against Japanese aggression, and English books related to aviation during World War II. These materials record important historical events such as the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and the arrival of Soviet pilots in China to assist in the war effort.
Earlier this month on May 9, Lu made a significant donation to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, contributing 89 items (or sets) of evidence documenting Japanese atrocities in Nanjing. The materials included newspapers, magazines, books, pictorials, and audio-visual records.
Born in Nanjing in 1964, Lu immigrated to the U.S. with his family before completing middle school. From a young age, he heard stories from his family about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing in 1937 and the suffering his family endured.
After the fall of Nanjing, Lu's greatuncle Lu Baoyin was shot dead by Japanese soldiers, and his grandaunt Lu Meiyin was killed at 26 while pregnant, struck by Japanese aircraft gunfire.
(By Gong Weiwei)
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