John Raven House
The John Rabe House ( Chinese 拉贝 故居 ) in Nanjing is the former residence of the former Siemens representative in China and chairman of the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone, John Rabe . He lived in this house from 1932–1938. Today it houses a memorial dedicated to John Rabe and a research center for peace studies.
The house is located in the city center of Nanjing at Xiaofenqiao No. 1 ( 小 粉 桥 1 ) on the campus of Nanjing University . John Rabe stayed here during the Nanjing massacre and in this house and garden protected more than 600 Chinese refugees from the Japanese soldiers. It was in this house that he wrote down his famous diaries.
His former home in Nanjing was only rediscovered when his granddaughter Ursula Reinhardt published the Nanking diaries of John Rabe in New York in 1996 . When German President Johannes Rau visited Nanjing University in 2003 , he expressed concern about the condition of the John Rabe House. Thanks to Rau's visit and his promise to support the renovation of the house, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai, together with Siemens China, BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte and the University of Nanjing, signed a contract to renovate the house and the “John Rabe and Internationale Security Zone Memorial Hall ”(拉贝 与 国际 安全 区 纪念馆) and a Research Center for Peace and Reconciliation (为 国际 和平 与 冲突 化解 研究 交流 中心). The German side provided the financial means, while the University of Nanjing is responsible for the construction and operation of the memorial hall and the research center.
John Rabe and International Security Zone Memorial Hall
On October 31, 2006, the "John Raven and International Security Zone Memorial Hall" was opened. On 1628 square meters and in six exhibition areas, more than 300 photos, documents and historical materials represent Rabe's life story. The main task of the Memorial Hall is to commemorate the heroic deeds and efforts of John Rabe and the other members of the Committee for the International Security Zone, to save innocent lives during the Nanjing massacre. The memorial in Rabe's former home can be visited Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Since 2008 the memorial and the research center has been an operational site of the Austrian Foreign Service .
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- ↑ Petra Kolonko: The good German from Nanking. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 1, 2006, accessed on March 30, 2018 .
Coordinates: 32 ° 3 ′ 9.8 ″ N , 118 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ E