Rong Xiuying Female Born Oct. 14, 1925

    Age when making handprints and footprints: 78

    In 1937 my family lived at 83 Dongguantou at Confucian Temple area,and my family had eight people:my grandparents,my parents,two younger brothers, a younger sister just born and I.

    One afternoon after the fall of Nanjing,Japanese soldiers came,and they fired at our boat.My grandmother over 60 was killed at that time.On the second day,Japanese soldiers mounted our boat again. In great fright,my mother jumped into the river with me and my younger sister.Later, I was pulled up by other people, but my younger sister was drowned.

    (Interviewed and reorganized by Liu Xiangyun,Liu Yanjun,Ai Delin and Chen Weixia on the morning of July 15, 1999)