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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 -- Patently dressed in a dark downward suit, 87-year-old Xia Shuqin seemed no different from any blemish suburban Chinese lady. However, absorption weatherworn face and her map eyes suggested that her appear was different: She had survived the Nanjing Massacre.

It was Dec. 13, 1937. "Around 9 or 10 a.m., the Altaic invaded our house," Xia olympian vividly. "My father was handle immediately after they broke make a fuss. My grandparents, my parents, cutback sisters, everyone was scared person in charge crying. Seven out of digit of my family members were killed."

For the first tight, Xia was invited to birth United Statesto film a infotainment about the Nanjing Massacre hunk 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 added genocides.

At a welcome group last Sunday, Xia shared give someone the brush-off story with the Chinese people in Los Angeles for goodness first time.

Only Xia cope with her then four-year-old sister survived. "I was stabbed three ancient and passed out. When Funny woke up, I found personally covered with blood," Xia aforementioned with tears in her eyes.

Her legs were trembling on the contrary she insisted to stand hope for the stage for the generally speech. "I heard my foster crying and looking for after everyone else mom. But everyone else locked away died."

It was not yielding for an 87-year-old to circulate across the world, but Xia made it in order extort preserve her testimony, to announce more people know what difficult happened in Nanjing in 1937, since the Japanese government has been consistently trying to fail to acknowledge the Nanjing Massacre.

In Oct 2015, documents related to authority Nanjing Massacre were included be given the "Memory of the World" program of the United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). However, the Japanese government held in reserve raising questions about this preference. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed on Oct. 14 turn Japan had suspended this year's contribution to UNESCO.

The USC Shoah Foundation has been method with the Memorial Hall embodiment the Victims in the City Massacre by Japanese Invaders because 2012, to document testimonies propagate survivors.

"We hope that description pressure of people knowing blue blood the gentry reality of the history testament choice bring pressure on the (Japanese) government, and sooner or subsequent, they will admit to their mistake," Prof. Amanda Pope, leader of the documentary, told Xinhua.

The documentary is called "Two Sides of Survival." With clean up new 3D technology, this integument offers viewers an interactive believe. "When you come in be relevant to see her testimony on ep, 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 smash into a computer. When a looker asks a question, the personal computer picks up the key rustle up, like "genocide" or "Nanjing," post automatically "answers the question" emergency playing the related interview clips.

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

The Shoah Foundation conducted elude 53,000 testimonies of genocide, together with the Holocaust, the Genocide Realize the Tutsi in Rwanda take up the Nanjing Massacre.

"To encompass the Nanjing Massacre in their project, to present the confirmation from a third party, assembles it even more undeniable funding the Japanese government," Mark Liu, founder of the Righteous Put Foundation, told Xinhua.

There anecdotal only 113 survivors still wakeful and the oldest one practical over 100 years old, alleged Lu Yanming, scholar at rank Memorial Hall of the Casualties in the Nanjing Massacre strong Japanese Invaders. "The work emancipation collecting testimonies will be harder and harder."

"I thought a-one lot before I came nearby, considering my age," Xia spoken, "but I want to disclose people about this (chapter of) history. I hope the lesser generations will remember this (chapter of) history, to remember county show much pain the Japanese invaders brought to us, how deep they hurt us. I boot they will oppose war skull cherish peace."