Every year on 13 December, China holds a state memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
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The killing went on for about six weeks after the city fell on 13 December 1937. The memorial hall in Nanjing gives the figure of 300,000 victims, set by the Nanjing war crimes tribunal of 1947, and since 2014, 13 December has been the national memorial day, 国家公祭日.
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A few foreigners who stayed, among them the German businessman 拉贝 John Rabe and the American teacher 魏特琳 Minnie Vautrin, ran the Nanking Safety Zone, which sheltered some 200,000 refugees.
