Hong Kong historians capture horrors of World War II in new website, with plenty more for heritage buffs, hikers too

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    Period29 Aug 2021

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    • TitleHong Kong historians capture horrors of World War II in new website, with plenty more for heritage buffs, hikers too
      Media name/outletSouth China Morning Post
      Media typePrint
      Country/TerritoryHong Kong
      Date29/08/21
      DescriptionHistorian Kwong Chi-man wants Hongkongers to remember the horrors of war, and one particularly painful episode from the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 stands out.

      Nurses running an orphanage in Fanling in the New Territories were raped and brutalised when Japanese soldiers arrived on December 8 and overran the place.

      Recording what happened that day, Mildred Dibden, an English woman who founded the orphanage, wrote: “One of the nurses was dragged forcibly by her hair and arm out of the room, holding on to anything she could reach on the way....
      Producer/AuthorSouth China Morning Post
      PersonsChi Man KWONG