Date of letter:1993-03-15
Address of author:Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Date of event:1944
Location of event:Not mentioned
Name of author:Li Lianchun
Name(s) of victim(s):Many
Type of atrocity:Slave Laborers（SL）
Other details:In March and April of 1944, 333 people were sent by the Japanese troops to Japan and were made Slave Laborerss. They suffered from cold and hunger and the number of people tortured to death increased continuously. For that we demand compensation from the Japanese government.
In 1943 during Japan’s war of invasion into China, the Japanese army committed extremely evil crimes of massive capturing and abuse of Chinese prisoners of war, and burning and massacre of Chinese civilian people.
On March 26, 1944, 333 Chinese people were captured and sent to Kagoshima to be slave laborers. The number of casualties increased constantly due to cold, hunger and brutal abuse.
In April 1944, we were among those who were sent to Nagano, Japan to be hard laborers.
We were sent to Nagano, Japan to work as hard laborers on repairing reservoirs. We demand compensation for damage. Mr. Tong Zeng, please submit it to the Japanese Embassy in China.
Yours faithfully,
Li Lianchuan who returned to China after Japan’s surrender in 1945
Address: Nanguan, Shenze, Hebei
