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soldiers who had sought sanctuary with you together with many hundreds of innocent civilians are taken out before your eyes to be shot or used for bayonet practice and you have to listen to the sounds of the guns that are killing them; while a thousand women kneel before you crying hysterically, begging you to save them from the beasts who are preying on them; to stand by and do nothing while your flag is taken down and insulted, not once but a dozen times, and your home is being looted and then to watch the city you have come to love and the institution to which you have planned to devote your best deliberately and systematically burned by fire-this is a hell I had never before envisaged.
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The Japanese had been telling the world that Koreans were backward, inept, and incapable of self-government. Instead, they are highly intelligent and inventive. They are generous, almost to the point of improvidence. Many of the Christians are conscientious tithers. The way they have supported their
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The destruction of Nanking was the blackest page in modern history The Japanese for two months kept up continuous looting, burning, robbing and murdering Chinese men by the thousands were taken out to be killed by machine guns or slaughtered for hand grenade practice. The poorest of the poor were
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Complete anarchy has reigned for ten days-it has been hell on earth... to have to stand by while even the very poor are having their last possession taken from them-their last coin, their last bit of bedding (and it is freezing weather), the poor ricksha man his ricksha; while thousands of disarmed
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I heard the cries of tens of thousands of women kneeling and praying for help which we were helpless to give. First, their husbands and sons were torn from them and ruthlessly murdered. Then night after night squads of Japanese soldiers would invade the neutral zone and drag away hundreds of them,
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branch. On July 7, 1947, the Fitch couple arrived on the peninsula. Fitch established YMCA meeting halls around the country and distributed relief aid for two years. He also reunited with his long-time friends Syngman Rhee and Kim Ku. He was present on the peninsula during the 1949
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missionary in Shanghai. They had two sons together. Townsend was also active in supporting the Chinese Nationalist government and the Korean Provisional Government, for which she is remembered fondly in Korea. In 1947, she helped integrate the female branch of
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Fitch was born and raised in China, and was a fluent speaker of Chinese. He and his siblings went to the United States for their education, but all returned afterwards and worked in various religious and humanitarian roles. Fitch himself worked with the
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Fitch and his siblings all returned to the United States for schooling and went back to China to work as missionaries. Fitch returned to the United States in 1900 to pursue his education. He graduated from the
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robbed of their last coins, deprived of their bedding and all that they could gather out of a city systematically destroyed by fire. There were hundreds of cases of bestiality inflicted upon Chinese women.
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Like his father, Fitch assisted Koreans for much of his lifetime, and in his autobiography stated that he considered many prominent Koreans as his friends. In his 1967 autobiography, he said of Koreans:
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The personal documents of him and his wife between 1909 and 1949, including their correspondence with Syngman Rhee, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Chiang Kai-shek, are held in the Fitch collection at the
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churches and the YMCA, when they have so little for themselves, is noteworthy. Is it any wonder that I look back upon my three years in Korea as among the richest and most gratifying in my life?
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Biographical sketches: one from The National Cyclopedia of American Biography; one by George A. Fitch entitled "Grand Old Man of the Pacific-and of YMCA"; a March 1949 issue of Science of Mind.
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George also advocated for the formal recognition of the KPG. In June 1944, he sent a letter to the US Department of State with twelve points that advocated for the recognition of the KPG.
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During the early 1940s, Geraldine stayed in the United States and actively participated in both of these groups. She wrote an article on behalf of the KAA and KPG that was published in
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His first official post was as chaplain at the Riverview Military Academy from 1906 to 1907. He then served as assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City.
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On January 23, 1938, Fitch and 13 other Americans were allowed to leave the city on a Japanese military train. He smuggled in the lining of his coat eight reels of
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In February 1923, his father also died, and Fitch briefly returned to the United States. Around this time, his wife Geraldine became close friends with the wife of
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In September 1936, Fitch went to Nanjing (then called "Nanking") after being appointed general manager of the Nanjing YMCA. However, after the outbreak of the
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in 1909. In addition to providing direct aid, they also shared their connections to important people with the Koreans. For example, they introduced Lyuh to
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In total, Fitch had five children, including three sons (Albert, John, and Robert) and two daughters (Marion and Edith). Marion was also born in China.
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Afterwards, he toured the United States and gave speeches and showed movies of the massacre to various audiences. He visited cities like San Francisco,
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Fitch's first wife was Alberta Casterlin Kempton (1887–1919), whom he met while studying in the United States in 1910. They married around 1911 in
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on July 7, 1937, Fitch became an advisor for the War Area Service Corps, a Chinese organization that provided soldiers with basic needs.
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on November 28, 1918. However, these activities drew the ire of the Japanese government, who went on to monitor the family for decades.
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For his role in the Korean independence movement, Fitch is remembered fondly in South Korea. On January 8, 1952, Fitch received the
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The Fitch couple and notable Korean independence activists. Bottom row from the right are Fitch, his wife Geraldine, Kim Ku, and
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Grand Lodge of China website, Fitch was a Freemason that served as the fifth Grand Master of that lodge, between 1958 and 1959.
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Fitch's parents had arrived in China on November 5, 1870. During that time, they were active in the Christian community in both
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was elected administrative director of the successor to the Nanking Safety Zone, the Nanjing International Relief Committee.
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Geraldine Townsend Fitch (1892–1976). Missionary, Korean independence activist, and second wife of Fitch
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in August 1945, Fitch announced his retirement from the YMCA. He then served as deputy director of the
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crying hysterically, to be subjected to unspeakable indignities. Theirs was a fate worse than death.
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release after Ahn's arrest for allegedly being connected to the bombing. He also introduced
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sessions every Wednesday, in which they encountered high-profile Chinese people, including
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According to Fitch's autobiography, he helped facilitate the later South Korean president
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into a coed program. For these efforts, she received an honorary degree from the school.
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that contained evidence of the massacre. The film mainly contained evidence filmed by
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and Suzhou. Fitch's father served as the chairman of the Chinese branch of the U.S.
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to counter the Japanese invasion. He also worked as a Chinese-English interpreter.
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Fitch was quoted in a June 11, 1938, story about Fitch's advocacy published in the
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move to the United States. In 1932, Fitch helped hide and facilitate the escape of
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commemorating Fitch as the independence activist of the month for January 2018.
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article about his death says he retired to Pomona. Pomona assumed because the
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in 1946. After this role, Fitch, then around 63 year old, intended to retire.
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He is most notable for his assistance of civilians and documentation of the
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Fitch and his wife Geraldine are now buried in the Valley View Cemetery of
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Fitch was one of 27 Westerners who chose to remain in the city during the
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The Fitch couple joined two organizations that Syngman Rhee founded: the
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However, Fitch was called back to work for the YMCA as the head of its
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Around 1944, he helped coordinate logistics for the US military on the
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Fitch returned to China in 1939 to serve with YMCA and later with the
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Project Eagle: The American Christians of North Korea in World War II
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In 1951, he resigned his post as head of the Korean YMCA and went to
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George A. and Geraldine T. Fitch, My Eighty Years in China (1967)
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Also on the boat were Korean independence activists, including
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Nanking Safety Zone International Committee, left to right:
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and arrived in San Francisco on March 9. He then flew to
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Hospital. This evidence later proved instrumental in the
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Recipients of the Order of Merit for National Foundation
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Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (South Korea)
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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
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In 1924, he married Geraldine Townsend (1892–1976) in
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at the time. When the massacre began, he worked with
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People assisting Chinese during the Nanjing Massacre
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International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone
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He then arrived in 1755:] (in Korean), May 8, 2018, archived from 1668: 731:George Ashmore Fitch, Diary, December 24, 1937 213: 8: 1392: 1390: 1388: 1386: 1384: 1382: 1380: 1378: 1376: 1374: 1290: 1284: 1278: 1268: 859:. He was also appointed head of the YMCA in 476:, the Fitches began providing assistance to 280: 1679: 1677: 1372: 1370: 1368: 1366: 1364: 1362: 1360: 1358: 1356: 1354: 1096:He was fluent in Chinese. 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For example, in 1919, they helped 348:missionary that lived and worked in 2179:American expatriates in South Korea 1850: 1776: 1753:This Month's Independence Activists 1629: 1617: 1588: 1567: 1345: 958:, and he attended Kim's funeral in 641:to the Kuomintang Foreign Minister 512:The Fitch family in New York (1897) 1721: 379:. Fitch served as director of the 14: 2199:Union Theological Seminary alumni 836:until 1947. He also followed the 2149:Protestant missionaries in China 2144:American Protestant missionaries 1970:Documents on the Rape of Nanking 1866:About 1958-59 MW George A. 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He also studied at 428: 2084:, vol. 7, no. 2, 2012:10.15799/kimos.2017..57.005 1263:Korea-America Association ( 1128:Portrayed in the 1995 film 1111:, and founded the infamous 971:Kuomintang had retreated to 439:Presbyterian Mission Agency 2225: 2189:Columbia University alumni 1041:Party Secretary of Jiangsu 989:In 1963, Fitch retired to 877:Christian Friends of Korea 652: 537:Career before World War II 523:Union Theological Seminary 116:Union Theological Seminary 2194:College of Wooster alumni 2076:Lu, Suping (April 2012), 2044:(published June 27, 2016) 1986:Fitch, George A. 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College of Wooster
Union Theological Seminary
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Nanjing Massacre
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Chinese
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Hanyu Pinyin
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