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Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe
Lewis S. C. Smythe, with a Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago, moved to Nanking when the United Christian
Missionary Society appointed him to teach taught sociology
at the University of Nanjing, where he taught from 1928 until
his return to the United States in 1951, except for the years of
war 1944-46.
In 1937 his wife and children left the city to attend an
American school in Kuliang. He was a member and secretary
of the International Committee, recording the atrocities of
the massacre, which he reported with John Rabe the chairman
library.yale.edu almost daily to the Japanese embassy in protest. From
December 1937 to February 1938, Smythe wrote sixty-nine letters to the Japanese army, protesting their actions. At the
end of March 1938, he conducted a census with the help of students called “War Damage in the Nanking Area.” He
was a witness at the war crimes trial in 1946 and fi led an affi davit with expert documentation.
Dr. Robert O. Wilson
Dr. Robert Wilson was an American physician, born in Nanking, China, in 1906,
the son of a Methodist missionaries. He obtained his medical degree at Harvard Medical
School in 1929 and returned to Nanking to work at the University of Nanking Hospital.
Along with Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe, he was instrumental in establishing the
International Safety Zone. During the Nanking Massacre, Dr. Wilson was the only surgeon
remaining in the city and treating victims. After the surrender of Japan, Dr. Wilson testifi ed
at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) about the atrocities he had
witnessed during the Nanking Massacre.
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