Combo photo shows daily life of Zhu Weiping and his family photo taken in 1976 (C, bottom). Zhu Weiping is a survivor of Nanjing Massacre, a heinous crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II in 1937, in Nanjing, capital of China. Photo shows Zhu reading newspaper at his residential community (L, top), Zhu sitting on his bed (L, central), Zhu talking with neighbors (L, bottom), Zhu exercising at his residential community (C, top), copy photo of Zhu (1st L, front) and his family in 1976 (C, bottom), Zhu walking at his residential community (R, top and R, central), and Zhu posing for a group photo with his son Zhu Zhixin at home. Zhu, born on Sept. 29, 1928, was injured in his left leg by the Japanese invaders in 1937. Zhu has four daughters and two sons now. Zhu lives together with his eldest son Zhu Zhixin after his wife passed away in 1997. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese invaders who occupied Nanjing on Dec. 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in the city. There are only less than 100 living survivors of the atrocity. Reporters from Xinhua spent many years to look for the survivors of Nanjing Massacre and record their current lives. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing, Li Xiang and Ji Chunpeng)
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