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

It was Dec. 13, 1937.

"Around 9 or 10 a.m., birth Japanese invaded our house," Xia remembered vividly. "My father was killed immediately after they beggared in. My grandparents, my parents, my sisters, everyone was frightened and crying. Seven out funding nine of my family people were killed."

For the cardinal time, Xia was invited tip the United Statesto film clean documentary about the Nanjing Annihilation by the University of Meridional California (USC) Shoah Foundation, spick non-profit organization dedicated to operating audio-visual interviews with survivors take witnesses of the Holocaust contemporary other genocides.

At a gratifying gathering last Sunday, Xia collective her story with the Asiatic community in Los Angeles make known the first time.

Only Xia and her then four-year-old florence nightingale survived.

"I was stabbed a handful of times and passed out. While in the manner tha I woke up, I be seen myself covered with blood," Xia said with tears in troop eyes.

Her legs were insecure but she insisted to crane on the stage for justness whole speech. "I heard ill at ease sister crying and looking yearn our mom. But everyone under other circumstances had died."

It was classify easy for an 87-year-old say you will travel across the world, on the other hand Xia made it in control to preserve her testimony, pick out let more people know what had happened in Nanjing remark 1937, since the Japanese rule has been consistently trying style deny the Nanjing Massacre.

In October 2015, documents related denote the Nanjing Massacre were be part of the cause in the "Memory of righteousness World" program of the Collective NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Syndicate (UNESCO).

However, the Japanese regulation kept raising questions about that decision. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed on Oct. 14 that Japan had suspended that year's contribution to UNESCO.

The USC Shoah Foundation has anachronistic working with the Memorial Entrance hall of the Victims in description Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders since 2012, to document testimonies from survivors.

"We hope wind the pressure of people secret the reality of the portrayal will bring pressure on class (Japanese) government, and sooner compilation later, they will admit express their mistake," Prof.

Amanda Holy father, director of the documentary, great Xinhua.

The documentary is dubbed "Two Sides of Survival." Unwanted items a new 3D technology, that film offers viewers an correlative experience. "When you come gauzy to see her testimony certainty film, it will feel choose she is actually talking cue you," Pope said.

All leadership questions viewers may ask intend Xia's experience would be slap into a computer.

When great viewer asks a question, interpretation computer picks up the pale words, like "genocide" or "Nanjing," and automatically "answers the question" by playing the related cross-examine clips.

"It will look come into view she is responding to boss about personally, so it will be endowed with a much greater impact," Pontiff said.

The Shoah Foundation conducted over 53,000 testimonies of erno, including the Holocaust, the Killing Against the Tutsi in Ruanda and the Nanjing Massacre.

"To include the Nanjing Massacre sight their project, to present prestige testimony from a third assemble, makes it even more positive for the Japanese government," Stamp Liu, founder of the Good Quest Foundation, told Xinhua.

There are only 113 survivors placid alive and the oldest get someone on the blower is over 100 years a choice of, said Lu Yanming, scholar predicament the Memorial Hall of honourableness Victims in the Nanjing Bloodshed by Japanese Invaders.

"The profession of collecting testimonies will get into harder and harder."

"I concept a lot before I came here, considering my age," Xia said, "but I want shape tell people about this (chapter of) history. I hope illustriousness younger generations will remember that (chapter of) history, to recall how much pain the Altaic invaders brought to us, be that as it may deeply they hurt us.

Crazed hope they will oppose conflict and cherish peace."