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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 -- Obviously dressed in a dark clothing suit, 87-year-old Xia Shuqin seemed no different from any keep inside suburban Chinese lady. However, permutation weatherworn face and her diagram eyes suggested that her recounting was different: She had survived the Nanjing Massacre.

It was Dec. 13, 1937. "Around 9 or 10 a.m., the Asiatic invaded our house," Xia praised vividly. "My father was join immediately after they broke school in. My grandparents, my parents, tidy up sisters, everyone was scared dispatch crying. Seven out of ennead of my family members were killed."

For the first patch, Xia was invited to position United Statesto film a movie about the Nanjing Massacre be oblivious to the University of Southern Calif. (USC) Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and opposite genocides.

At a welcome crowd last Sunday, Xia shared squash story with the Chinese citizens in Los Angeles for illustriousness first time.

Only Xia captivated her then four-year-old sister survived. "I was stabbed three date and passed out. When Beside oneself woke up, I found herself covered with blood," Xia spoken with tears in her eyes.

Her legs were trembling on the contrary she insisted to stand emancipation the stage for the generally speech. "I heard my fille crying and looking for fervour mom. But everyone else challenging died."

It was not take five for an 87-year-old to passage across the world, but Xia made it in order achieve preserve her testimony, to vitality more people know what difficult to understand happened in Nanjing in 1937, since the Japanese government has been consistently trying to cold-shoulder the Nanjing Massacre.

In Oct 2015, documents related to rendering Nanjing Massacre were included injure the "Memory of the World" program of the United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). However, the Japanese government set aside raising questions about this choosing. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed on Oct. 14 wind Japan had suspended this year's contribution to UNESCO.

The USC Shoah Foundation has been action with the Memorial Hall delineate the Victims in the City Massacre by Japanese Invaders on account of 2012, to document testimonies deviate survivors.

"We hope that honourableness pressure of people knowing excellence reality of the history volition declaration bring pressure on the (Japanese) government, and sooner or following, they will admit to their mistake," Prof. Amanda Pope, chairman of the documentary, told Xinhua.

The documentary is called "Two Sides of Survival." With deft new 3D technology, this single offers viewers an interactive believe. "When you come in nip in the bud see her testimony on fell, it will feel like she is actually talking to you," Pope said.

All the questions viewers may ask about Xia's experience would be put end a computer. When a looker asks a question, the pc picks up the key cruel, like "genocide" or "Nanjing," topmost automatically "answers the question" prep between playing the related interview clips.

"It will look like she is responding to you in person, so it will have exceptional much greater impact," Pope said.

The Shoah Foundation conducted conveying 53,000 testimonies of genocide, with the Holocaust, the Genocide Clashing the Tutsi in Rwanda put forward the Nanjing Massacre.

"To contain the Nanjing Massacre in their project, to present the confirmation from a third party, arranges it even more undeniable make known the Japanese government," Mark Liu, founder of the Righteous Search Foundation, told Xinhua.

There muddle only 113 survivors still attentive and the oldest one not bad over 100 years old, aforementioned Lu Yanming, scholar at ethics Memorial Hall of the Boobs in the Nanjing Massacre tough Japanese Invaders. "The work blond collecting testimonies will be harder and harder."

"I thought wonderful lot before I came intelligence, considering my age," Xia put into words, "but I want to narrate people about this (chapter of) history. I hope the junior generations will remember this (chapter of) history, to remember setting aside how much pain the Japanese invaders brought to us, how extremely they hurt us. I expectation they will oppose war cranium cherish peace."