Minnie Vautrin(1886-1941) was born in Illinois,USA.In 1912,She  came to China and was appointed as Dean of the Department of Education in Jinling Women's College in 1919.When Nanjing was captured,she was one of the few women of the western countries who volunteered to stay in Nanjing.She was a menber of the International Red Cross Committee of Nanjing.She made the campus of Jinling Women's College a refugee camp specially for young women and children.At the maximum,the female refugee s staying in the college were over 9,000.In defiance of  untold hardships and even risking her own life,she often went day and night in order to save and protect the women from the ravages of the Japanese soldiers.The refugees called her a "Living Goddess".

The female refugees under Vautrin's protection in the Nanjing Safety Zone.

The refugees' camp in Jinling Women's College. --- From Long Live Jinling