Foreigners in China help publicize Nanjing Massacre stories

The series of stories were published through a website called thenanjinger.com, which was established in 2009 and founded by 48-year-old Scotland native Frank Hossack to introduce Chinese culture to Westerners.

Frank, who worked as a radio producer in Shanghai for 10 years, has spent 14 years living in Nanjing.

Frank said he didn't know the Nanjing Massacre until he first came to Nanjing, and many Westerners who haven't experienced World War II also don't know about this phase of history.

"I can't believe it," Frank said. "The number of victims is unbelievable."

He realized the Nanjing Massacre truly happened when he stood at the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders and witnessed specific evidence of the holocaust, where more than 300,000 people were murdered in the most torturous ways imaginable.

Frank came to know more about the history of Chinese people's resistance and the Japanese invasion because of his wife, He Wen, who is from a Chinese military family. He's grandparents were all Chinese military soldiers who fought in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and War of Liberation (1946-55).

Now, his website has eight full-time staff, including three foreigners. And more than 20 other foreigners serve as freelance writers for the website.

The Peacemaker from Nanking, a short film about Vautrin made by Luo Yiyun, a Chinese student born in Nanjing, won the JCS International Young Creatives Award on Nov 18 at the International Emmy World Television Festival Nominee Medal Ceremony in New York.