【编者按】2025年是中国东说念主民抗日干戈暨宇宙反法西斯干戈顺利80周年。在这场关乎民族存续的干戈中，来自五洲四海的海外友东说念主，不畏艰险远渡重洋，以医疗救助、战地报说念、时刻支援等多种神气投身这场民族自若作事。大路不孤，白求恩医生的手术刀、斯诺的新闻笔、拉贝的安全区等齐是擢升国界的生命钤记。《江山故东说念主远说念来》海传奇播系列报说念，以中英双语视频归并AI动画时刻再现历史细节，致意擢升国界的信念之光。

　　【Editor's Note】

　　2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. In this war that concerned the survival of the nation, international friends from all over the world braved dangers and crossed the seas to join the cause of national liberation in various forms such as medical aid, war reporting, and technical support. The path of righteousness is not lonely. Dr. Bethune's scalpel, Snow's journalistic pen, and Rabe's safety zone are all life marks that transcend national borders. The international communication series “From Afar Came the Unforgotten“ uses bilingual Chinese-English videos combined with AI animation technology to reproduce historical details and pay tribute to the light of belief that transcends national borders.

　　1937年冬，南京城陷，侵华日军的铁蹄踏碎古齐安谧，三十万同族惨遭夷戮。在这场东说念主间浩劫中，一位好意思国女性以超乎寻常的勇气，为上万名中国妇孺撑起生命的樊篱。她等于金陵女子文理学院代理校长明妮・魏特琳。

　　炮火映红天空时，她站在校门口，以看似柔弱的身躯起义强荼毒行。她如同真金不怕火狱中的一抹回绝，于至暗时刻折射出东说念主性的辉光，更彰昭着女性在危难中的坚韧力量。

　　临危请命，她守定危城

　　魏特琳1886年生于好意思国伊利诺伊州一个用功家庭，1912年从伊利诺伊大学陶冶学专科毕业后赴中国使命，1919年出任金女大陶冶系主任。1928年，吴贻芳被聘用金女大校长。魏特琳成为其紧要的助手。

　　1937年11月12日，上海殒命，日军向南京进逼。校长吴贻芳衡量再三，决定迁校成齐。能带的齐尽量带了，可校园若何办？领导开发若何办？枢纽时刻，魏特琳挺身而出：“把学校交给我吧！”她断然留守，成为战火中金女大的本色讲求东说念主。她指导学生和西宾接管进军驻扎顺次、购买物质、进取海发送求救信号、下令修建战壕、安排校园内储存物质和搭建遁迹时局……好意思国大使馆曾屡次送信条目其撤回，她的回应义正辞严：“就像在危急之中，男东说念主们不应弃船而去，女东说念主也不应丢弃她们的孩子。”

　　柔肩担险，她立于东说念主前

　　南京大屠杀时间，魏特琳担任海外红十字会南京委员会委员和金女浩劫民所长处，在南京海外安全区下辖25个黎民所中，她是独逐一位女性长处，亦然独一由异邦东说念主担任的黎民所长处。她每天齐像母鸡护小鸡相通守卫着前来遁迹的妇女儿童，最岑岭时金陵女子文理学院的校园里收留了10000多名妇孺。

　　日军进城后，每天齐会有日本兵到金陵女子文理学院捏东说念主。他们不仅从学校的大门、边门强行入内，还有东说念主翻越围墙进校园，更有甚者，夜间从学校低矮的竹篱上爬过来。魏特琳整日在校园里放哨，从一个处所跑到另一个处所，高声地喊：“这是好意思国粹校！”但有时日本兵并不睬会，他们拿着血印斑斑的刺刀阻拦她，还有东说念主狠狠地抽魏特琳的耳光。“枯叶瑟瑟地响着，风在柔声与呜咽，被捏走的妇女们发出悲凄的叫声。”她在日志里记下这透骨的一幕，次日却仍站在门口，管待更多涌入的妇孺，用并不肥硕的身躯挡在悉数东说念主身前。

　　1938 年1月，又名妇女找到魏特琳，说她的犬子失散了，央求她能襄助寻找。仅三四天的时辰，失散东说念主员名单就高涨到600多东说念主。魏特琳独特编制了一份名单，匡助统计遁迹妇女失散了的丈夫、儿孙情况，一次又一次同日本大使馆交涉。她深知，略微出点缺欠，对他们悉数的东说念主来说就意味着蚀本。

　　她一世未育，却有一群“孩子”

　　1938年2月初，擢发可数的南京大屠杀基本趋于适度，南京的大多半黎民营也随之关闭。可金女大内仍有许多妇女不敢回家，还有不少东说念主家破东说念主一火无意应变。魏特琳连续收留她们，直到3月中旬，仍有3300名妇孺生存在她的羽翼之下。

　　生命保全了，魏特琳又开动为她们的异日谋略。仍是的内行陶冶念念想又复苏了，她积极创办管事磨练班，手把手地教妇女们织毛巾、织袜子。9月，以致办起了女子中学，共有学生170多东说念主。紧接着，小学、托儿所接踵修复。生命束缚，陶冶不啻，魏特琳女士莫得这么说，却是这么作念了。

　　恐怖高压下的信守磨损了她的心力。1941年5月14日，魏特琳未能比及日军驯服的那一天，告别了这个宇宙。临终前，她留住遗言：“若是能再生一次，如故要为中国东说念主作事，中国事我的家。”

　　1941年5月18日，魏特琳的葬礼在好意思国举行，金女大学友代表徐亦蓁乘坐飞机从马萨诸塞州赶往密歇根州投入了告别庆典。在长方形的墓碑正面，雕琢着金女大校舍的剖面图，同期用坚强的隶书写下四个汉字——“金陵长生”。

　　In the winter of 1937, the city of Nanjing fell as the invading Japanese army trampled the ancient capital's peace.When the disaster struck, an American woman displayed extraordinary courage, offering a shield of life for tens of thousands of Chinese women and children. She was Minnie Vautrin, acting president of Ginling College.

　　As gunfire flushed the sky, she stood at the college gate, a seemingly frail body defying savage violence. Like a warm spark in purgatory, she refracted the light of humanity in the darkest hour, embodying the unyielding power of women in crisis.

　　Staying Behind: Protecting a City Under Siege

　　Minnie Vautrin was born in 1886 into an impoverished family in Illinois, USA. After graduating in Education from the University of Illinois in 1912, Vautrin went to work in China. By 1919, she was Ginling's Director of Education. In 1928, when Wu Yifang became President, Vautrin served as her key assistant.

　　In 1937, as Shanghai fell and Japanese forces closed in on Nanjing, President Wu Yifang decided to move the college to Chengdu. They took what they could, but the campus and equipment remained. At the critical moment, Vautrin stepped forward: “Leave the college to me!“ She resolved to stay and became Ginling's leader amid the war. She directed students and faculty to take emergency defensive measures, purchase supplies, send distress calls to Shanghai, order trenches dug, and arrange for stockpiled provisions and shelters within the campus.Despite repeated U.S. Embassy orders to evacuate, she refused firmly:“Just as men shouldn't abandon ship in danger, women shouldn't abandon their children.“

　　Her Fragile Shoulders, Immense Courage

　　During the Nanjing Massacre, Vautrin served on the International Red Cross Committee and directed Ginling's refugee camp. Among the 25 refugee camps under the Nanjing International Safety Zone, she was the only female director and the sole foreign national in that role.Like a mother hen protecting her chicks, she guarded the women and children seeking refuge, sheltering over 10,000 people in the Ginling College campusat the peak.

　　After the Japanese troops entered the city, soldiers came to Ginling College every day to seize people. They forced their way in through the main and side gates, scaled the walls, and at night crawled over the low hedges. Vautrin patrolled the campus from dawn to dusk, running from spot to spot, shouting, “This is an American school!” Yet the soldiers often ignored her; some threatened her with blood-stained bayonets, others struck her hard across the face.“Dry leaves rustled, the wind sobbed low, and the women dragged away screamed in anguish,” she wrote in her diary. The next morning she was back at the gate, admitting more women and children, her slight figure planted squarely between them and danger.

　　In January 1938, a woman came to Vautrin begging her to help find her missing son. Within three or four days, the list of the disappeared had grown to more than 600 names. Vautrin compiled a detailed register of the lost husbands, sons and grandsons reported by the refugee women and, time after time, confronted the Japanese embassy with it. She knew that the slightest error could spell death for them all.

　　Childless, Yet Mother to Many

　　By early February 1938, the unspeakable Nanjing Massacre was largely over, and most of the city's refugee camps were closed. Yet many women at Ginling still dared not return home, and others had nowhere to go. Vautrin kept the gates open; even in mid-March, 3,300 women and children still lived under her protection.

　　Lives saved, she turned to their future. Her old conviction in mass education revived. She launched vocational classes, teaching the women by hand to weave towels and socks. In September she opened a girls’ middle school for 170 pupils; a primary school and a nursery followed. Vautrin never said, “While there is life, there is education,“ but she lived it.

　　The relentless terror and pressure wore down her spirit. On May 14, 1941, Minnie Vautrin passed away, never living to see the day of Japan's surrender. Before her death, she left these final words:“If I had a second life, I would still serve the Chinese people. China is my home.“

　　On May 18, 1941, Vautrin's funeral was held in the United States. Xu Yizhen, representing Ginling College alumni, flew from Massachusetts to Michigan to attend the farewell service. On the face of her rectangular tombstone, an engraving depicts a cross-section of the Ginling College campus building. Beside it, four powerful Chinese characters are rendered in the bold clerical script (Lishu):“Ginling Lives Forever“.

　　（起原：东说念主民政协报、侵华日军南京大屠杀受难同族顾虑馆、《魏特琳日志》）

　　无穷使命室出品

　　谋划：魏鹏 辛然

　　案牍：沙斯媛

　　翻译、配音：武玮佳

　　编著：马茜

　　预备：陈艳娇