John Rabe Communication Center
The John Rabe Communication Center ( dt. John Rabe Communication Center ) is a small information center and museum in Heidelberg that of Thomas Rabe was founded with the aim, the life of John Rabe using his diaries to document and a basis for international understanding, especially between China and Japan .
background
In 1937, John Rabe in saved Nanjing over 250,000 Chinese civilians in an attack by the Imperial Japanese Army life (see Nanjing Massacre ).
aims
The museum is to document the events in Nanjing and especially the experiences of John Rabe. The facility serves as a platform for various peace projects.
John Rabe Peace Prize
Since 2009 the John Rabe Communication Center has been awarding the John Rabe Peace Prize (John Rabe Award) annually to people who have worked in a special way to come to terms with their own history, for international understanding and peace in connection with China. The first prize winner was the Japanese actor Teruyuki Kagawa :
“The actor is being honored for having shown the courage and moral courage as a Japanese man to play the role of HIH Prince Asaka in the film ' John Rabe ' and thereby showed that the recognition of historical truth for international understanding between China and Japan is more important than ever. "
The John Rabe Peace Prize 2010 was awarded on November 8, 2010 in the Chinese Cultural Center in Berlin to the former director of the John Rabe House in Nanjing Tang Daoluan and memorial service founder Andreas Maislinger . As in 2009, the awards were made available by the Austrian company Swarovski .
On June 6, 2013 the sinologists Gerd Kaminski and Richard Trappl were presented with the John Rabe Award by Thomas Rabe in the parliament in Vienna . The laudators were Wolfgang Schüssel and Wolfgang Kubin .
Web links
- John Rabe Communication Center: Description by Thomas Rabe ( Memento from January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Consul General Wen Zhenshun commemorates John Rabe, March 16, 2010.
supporting documents
- ↑ Interview with Thomas Rabe, Radio China International
- ↑ John Rabe Peace Award 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ John Rabe Award 2013
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