Nirvana in bloodbath: Portraits of Nanjing Massacre survivors

Xia Shuqin, born on May 5, 1929, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre. On December 13, 1937, a group of Japanese soldiers broke into her house, shooting her father and the landlord to death, grabbing her one-year-old younger sister from her mother's arms, smashing the baby to death, and gang-raping and killing her mother. In the next room, the soldiers killed her grandparents, raped and killed her two older sisters. Xia Shuqin was stabbed three times in her back and fell into a coma. Seven of the nine-people family died. Only eight-year-old Xia Shuqin and her four-year-old sister survived. [Photo: IC]