魏特琳

Wèitèlín
noun #29,394

Meanings

  1. 1 Minnie Vautrin (American missionary who sheltered refugees during the Nanjing Massacre)

Examples

Wèitèlín zài Nánjīng Dàtúshā qījiān bǎohù le shù qiān míng fùnǚ hé értóng.
Minnie Vautrin protected thousands of women and children during the Nanjing Massacre.
Tā de rìjì shì Nánjīng Dàtúshā de zhòngyào lìshǐ jiànzhèng.
Her diary is an important historical testimony to the Nanjing Massacre.

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history
Minnie Vautrin (1886–1941), known in Chinese as 魏特琳, was an American missionary educator at Ginling College in Nanjing. During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, she turned the college campus into a sanctuary for over 10,000 women and children. Her diary is a primary source on the atrocities. She suffered a breakdown from the trauma and died in 1941.

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