For over half a century, the former residence of John Rabe, “the living Buddha” worshipped by hundreds of thousands of refugees, has been standing in oblivion at the intersection of Zhongshan Road and
In August, 1937, the Japanese airplanes began to bomb Nanjing. Hearing the news, John Rabe hurried home from his summer vacation at Bei Daihe, a seaside resort place in Hebei province. He himself desi
In 1934, John Rabe established a German school in Nanjing for the children of the German employees of the Nanjing office of Siemens China Co. The school was located in the garden of his house inside a
In the summer of 1932, Rabe signed an agreement with Xie Jiasheng, Dean of the Agronomy School of the University of Nanking. The agreement specified that the university would build and rent Rabe a hou