During the Japanese-led Nanking Massacre, the International Red Cross established a contigent in the city to coordinate the humanitarian aid effort.
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| Name | Nationality / Occupation | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| John Magee | American missionary | American Church Mission |
| Li Chuin-nan | Chinese | |
| Walter Lowe | Chinese | |
| Ernest Forster | American missionary | St. Paul Church |
| Christian Kröger | German | |
| Mary Twinem | Chinese-American | |
| Minnie Vautrin | American missionary | Ginling Girls' College |
| Robert O. Wilson | American physician | Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hospital) |
| P. H. Munro-Faure | British businessman | Asiatic Petroleum Co. |
| C.S. Trimmer | American physician | Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hosptial) |
| James McCallum | American missionary | Drum Tower Hospital (Nanking University Hospital) |
| Miner Searle Bates | American professor | University of Nanking |
| John Rabe | German businessman | Siemens Co. |
| Lewis S. C. Smythe | American professor | University of Nanking |
| Rev. W. Plumer Mills | American missionary | American Church Mission |
| Cola Podshivoloff | Russian (White) | |
| Pastor Shen Yu-shu | Chinese | Christian minister |
Below is listed their responsibilities, and/or their mini-biographies if known and not already linked above:
Rev. John Magee, the chairman of Red Cross's Nanking Branch, took care of the wounded at the hospital and filmed some of them with his 16mm movie camera to record the atrocities.
Through Minnie Vautrin's efforts, Ginling Girls College became a haven of refuge, at times harboring up to 10,000 women in a college designed to support between 200 and 300. With only her wits and the use of an American flag, Vautrin was able to repel incursions into her college and thereby protected thousands of Chinese women from being raped as she oversaw the refugee camp at Ginling Women's Arts and Science College where she served as the acting president.
James McCallum drove the Drum Tower Hospital ambulance to pick up wounded around the city day and night, fighting to keep himself awake.
Grace Bauer worked in the Drum Tower Hospital to help care for the wounded who poured in.
Mary Twinem, née Fine (費馬利), or Mrs. Paul de Witt-Twinem, taught at Kwang-hwa High School, where she was one of Soong May-ling's teacher. An American from Trenton, New Jersey, she was later naturalized as a Chinese citizen and considered herself Chinese. [1] [2]