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WW2 Chinese Refugees

From Eyewitness 19 November 2014

Seventy five years ago several hundred Chinese women and children arrived in New Zealand, fleeing the Japanese invasion of China. These were the wives and children of the Chinese men already here. The 75th anniversary of their arrival in New Zealand is being celebrated in Auckland.

A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a shin gunto during the Nanking Massacre Photo PD BY Wiki

An article on the Contest to kill 100 people using a sword published in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun. Phot by Shinju Sato 12 December 1937 PD BY Wiki

Hong Kong during WW2 Names of the roads were rewritten in Japanese PD BY Wiki

Hong Kong Harbour 1936 Photo Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN via U.S.A Naval Historical Center

Japanese soldiers arrested the western bankers and kept them in a Chinese hotel. PD BY Wiki

Liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 after the Second World War. Picture taken at the Cenotaph in Central, Hong Kong. PD BY Wiki

U.S. tanks use the Burma Road for the first time after the combined Allied offensive broke the two-year Japanese control of the only overland supply route to China. PD BY Wiki

75th anniversary Chinese war refugees - photo courtesy Sue Gee

VIPs attending the 75th anniversary - photo courtesy Sue Gee

Doris King (nee Wong) at the anniversary - former child refugee

Grandchildren at the event

Jordin Chin and Jasmin Sue - grandchildren of Chinese refugees

Justin interviews Richard Leung, New Zealand Chinese Association, Auckland

Kenneth Chan, a former child refugee

To grow roots where they land

Marcia and Jack Chan at their home in wellington

Jack and Marcia Chan in wellington

Marcia Chan as a four-year-old arriving in New Zealand - former child refugee

Jack Chan (left) as a young boy in Hong Kong during the occupation

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