During the Japanese-led Nanking Massacre

Nanking Massacre

The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...

, the International Red Cross established a contigent in the city to coordinate the humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disaster and man-made disaster. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity...

 effort.

Members

Members
of
The International Red Cross Committee of Nanking

Name	Nationality / Occupation	Organization
John Magee John Magee (priest) John Gillespie Magee was an American Episcopal priest.-Early life and education:Magee was born in 1884 in Virginia of the United States. Magee came from a wealthy Pittsburgh family. His brother was aviator and Congressman James McDevitt Magee...	American missionary	American Church Mission
Li Chuin-nan	Chinese
Walter Lowe	Chinese
Ernest Forster	American missionary	St. Paul Church
Christian Kröger	German
Mary Twinem	Chinese-American
Minnie Vautrin Minnie Vautrin Wilhelmina Vautrin was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanjing, China, during the Nanking Massacre.- Biography :...	American missionary	Ginling Girls' College Ginling College Ginling College was a Christian university founded in 1913 in Nanjing, China...
Robert O. Wilson Robert O. Wilson Robert O. Wilson, MD was an American physician born to Protestant missionaries Wilbur F. Wilson and Mary Rowley Wilson. Wilson attended Princeton University and subsequently obtained his medical training at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1929. He returned to Nanjing in 1936, where he...	American physician	Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hospital)
P. H. Munro-Faure	British businessman	Asiatic Petroleum Co.
C.S. Trimmer	American physician	Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hosptial)
James McCallum	American missionary	Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hospital)
Miner Searle Bates Miner Searle Bates Miner Searle Bates was educated at numerous, prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford, Yale University, and Hiram College...	American professor	University of Nanking
John Rabe John Rabe John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event...	German businessman	Siemens Co. Siemens AG Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
Lewis S. C. Smythe	American professor	University of Nanking University of Nanking The University of Nanking was a private university in Nanjing, China. The University of Nanking was founded in 1888 and sponsored by American churches...
Rev. W. Plumer Mills	American missionary	American Church Mission
Cola Podshivoloff	Russian (White) White Russia White Russia or White Ruthenia is a name that has historically been applied to a part of the wider region of Ruthenia or Rus', most often to that which roughly corresponds to the eastern part of present-day Belarus including the cities of Polatsk, Vitsyebsk and Mahiliou. In English, the use of the...
Pastor Shen Yu-shu	Chinese	Christian minister

Activities

Below is listed their responsibilities, and/or their mini-biographies if known and not already linked above:

John Magee

Rev. John Magee, the chairman of Red Cross's Nanking Branch, took care of the wounded at the hospital and filmed some of them with his 16mm movie camera to record the atrocities.

Minnie Vautrin

Through Minnie Vautrin

Minnie Vautrin

Wilhelmina Vautrin was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanjing, China, during the Nanking Massacre.- Biography :...

's efforts, Ginling Girls College

Ginling College

Ginling College was a Christian university founded in 1913 in Nanjing, China...

 became a haven of refuge, at times harboring up to 10,000 women in a college designed to support between 200 and 300. With only her wits and the use of an American flag, Vautrin was able to repel incursions into her college and thereby protected thousands of Chinese women from being raped as she oversaw the refugee camp at Ginling Women's Arts and Science College where she served as the acting president.

James McCallum

James McCallum drove the Drum Tower Hospital ambulance to pick up wounded around the city day and night, fighting to keep himself awake.

Grace Bauer

Grace Bauer worked in the Drum Tower Hospital to help care for the wounded who poured in.

Mary Twinem

Mary Twinem, née Fine (費馬利), or Mrs. Paul de Witt-Twinem, taught at Kwang-hwa High School, where she was one of Soong May-ling

Soong May-ling

Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang was a First Lady of the Republic of China , the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician and painter...

's teacher. An American from Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

, she was later naturalized as a Chinese citizen and considered herself Chinese.

External link

List of members with Chinese names