Cassidy McDonald

While John Rabe was living through one of the greatest acts of mass violence of World War II, his employers at Siemens China Company had no clue what he was doing. The Japanese had censored communication to the outside world,...

As soon as the Japanese troops arrived, Minnie Vautrin began to hear about the rapes. Vautrin, the optimistic American missionary introduced earlier this week, had stayed behind during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in order manage a...

Today, likely at around 10 am, and continuing for quite some time, an urgent cry will ring out across Nanjing. The air raid sirens that warned local people of incoming Japanese bombers will once again wail, as they do...

Minnie Vautrin’s mission was to educate the girls and women of China, and she was well suited to that task. History, however, will remember her, not for the women she educated, but for the lives she saved during the...

In early 1937, Nanjing was not an ideal place to live. Japanese air raids were growing more frequent, and nearby cities continued to fall to the Japanese army. Clearly, Nanjing would soon be next. Naturally, all...