【编者按】2025年是中国东谈主民抗日战役暨寰球反法西斯战役告捷80周年。在这场关乎民族存续的战役中，来自五洲四海的国外友东谈主，不畏艰险远渡重洋，以医疗接济、战地报谈、技巧支持等多种形势投身这场民族开脱功绩。大路不孤，白求恩医生的手术刀、斯诺的新闻笔、拉贝的安全区等皆是跳跃国界的人命图章。《江山故东谈主远谈来》国传闻播系列报谈，以中英双语视频迷惑AI动画技巧再现历史细节，请安跳跃国界的信念之光。

　　【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皆正经，三十万本族惨遭杀戮。在这场东谈主间浩劫中，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人命的樊篱。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，以看似柔弱的身躯抵挡霸谈暴行。她如同真金不怕火狱中的一抹暖热，于至暗时刻折射出东谈主性的辉光，更彰显豁女性在危难中的坚硬力量。

　　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停止家庭，1912年从伊利诺伊大学教练学专科毕业后赴中国职责，1919年出任金女大教练系主任。1928年，吴贻芳被聘请金女大校长。魏特琳成为其重大的助手。

　　1937年11月12日，上海消一火，日军向南京进逼。校长吴贻芳衡量再三，决定迁校成皆。能带的皆尽量带了，可校园怎样办？陶冶诱导怎样办？关键时刻，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崇敬东谈主。她教养学生和教师接管要紧蜕化花式、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逃一火时局……好意思国大使馆曾屡次送信条目其除去，她的回应金声玉振：“就像在危急之中，男东谈主们不应弃船而去，女东谈主也不应丢弃她们的孩子。”

　　柔肩担险，她立于东谈主前

　　南京大屠杀时间，魏特琳担任国外红十字会南京委员会委员和金女浩劫民所长处，在南京国外安全区下辖25个百姓所中，她是独逐个位女性长处，亦然独一由异邦东谈主担任的百姓所长处。她每天皆像母鸡护小鸡同样守卫着前来逃一火的妇女儿童，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，每天皆会有日本兵到金陵女子文理学院执东谈主。他们不仅从学校的大门、边门强行入内，还有东谈主翻越围墙进校园，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考核，从一个所在跑到另一个所在，高声地喊：“这是好意思国粹校！”但偶然日本兵并不睬会，他们拿着血印斑斑的刺刀恫吓她，还有东谈主狠狠地抽魏特琳的耳光。“枯叶瑟瑟地响着，风在柔声抽搭，被执走的妇女们发出凄切的叫声。”她在日志里记下这透骨的一幕，次日却仍站在门口，招待更多涌入的妇孺，用并不宽阔的身躯挡在悉数东谈主身前。

　　1938 年1月，别称妇女找到魏特琳，说她的女儿失散了，请求她能帮衬寻找。仅三四天的时候，失散东谈主员名单就高涨到600多东谈主。魏特琳专诚编制了一份名单，匡助统计逃一火妇女失散了的丈夫、儿孙情况，一次又一次同日本大使馆交涉。她深知，略略出点错误，对他们悉数的东谈主来说就意味着逝世。

　　她一世未育，却有一群“孩子”

　　1938年2月初，罪无可赦的南京大屠杀基本趋于罢休，南京的大大批百姓营也随之关闭。可金女大内仍有很多妇女不敢回家，还有不少东谈主家破东谈主一火自投罗网。魏特琳连摄取留她们，直到3月中旬，仍有3300名妇孺生存在她的羽翼之下。

　　人命保全了，魏特琳又运转为她们的将来决议。照旧的巨匠教练想想又复苏了，她积极创办职业实践班，手把手地教妇女们织毛巾、织袜子。9月，致使办起了女子中学，共有学生170多东谈主。紧接着，小学、托儿所接踵设置。人命不休，教练不啻，魏特琳女士莫得这么说，却是这么作念了。

　　恐怖高压下的效力磨损了她的心力。1941年5月14日，魏特琳未能比及日军遵从的那一天，告别了这个寰球。临终前，她留住遗言：“如若能再生一次，照旧要为中国东谈主办事，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典礼。在长方形的墓碑正面，雕饰着金女大校舍的剖面图，同期用遒劲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“.

　　（着手：东谈主民政协报、侵华日军南京大屠杀受难本族挂牵馆、《魏特琳日志》）

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