Sequence number:s0013
Date of letter:1993-02-09
Address of author:Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Date of event:1937
Location of event:Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Name of author:Chen Huancai
Name(s) of victim(s):Chen Erma (father of Chen Huancai), etc.
Type of atrocity:Other Massacres (OM)
Other details:In the winter of 1937, many villagers were killed in the village. The letter contains a list of some victims.
Comrade Tong Zeng:
How do you do!
As we live in the countryside, we are not well informed in all kinds of news, so about the “Report on Demand for Persecution Compensations from Japan by Chinese Nationals”, it was not until February 8, 1993, that we obtained a copy of your material from a comrade living in the city. According to incomplete statistics, one day in early winter of 1937 (September 6th on the lunar calendar), the number of commoners living in our village being killed by Japanese imperialism reached several dozen, or might be over hundred; here we would like to give you a very incomplete report of the facts we have discovered: The name list of victims is as follows:
Father of Chen Huancai: Chen Erma, Elder brother: Chen Xiachuang.
Father of Zhang Junlian: Zhang Xiaoshou.
Father of Ma Lingqun: Ma Wubei.
Father of Ma Xiaozhan: Ma Jizao.
Father of Wang Diubo: Wang Xiaodong.
Father of He Rongxiu: He Anxiang.
Father of Zhang Zhide: Zhang Xiaowu.
Father of Zhang Zhiyuan: Zhang Shuangmi.
Father of Wei Yaba: Wei Yuan, elder brother: Wei Jitang.
Father of Fu Mengyun: Fu Buzhi.
Father of Fu Yinsen: Fu Mengqi.
Father of Wei Guoyuan: Wei Chunshou.
Elder brother of Xie Xiaokou: Xie Xiaobei.
Grandfather of Wang Wugen: Wang Laojun, elder brother: Wang Qing.
Father of Fu Qingzheng: Fu Shuangjin.
Father of Fu Xiaofu: Fu Dabian.
Elder brother of Fu Guaizi.
Father of Liu Funv
Totaling twenty one persons.
For the above facts, if needed, after receiving reply, I will promptly feedback the discovered details to you.
(My address: Brigade 5, Zhuhe Village, Donghe Town, Zhengding County, Hebei Province)
Postal code: 050800
Family member of victims: Chen Huancai
Zhang Zhide
February 9, 1993
