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Image ID15522
TitlePiled up coffins in the Hongqiao (Hungjao) Cemetery of the Shanghai Pubic Benevolent Cemetery
CollectionVirtual Shanghai
LocationShanghai
Year1937
Date1937
Caption in album or on mount

Deplorable conditions at Shanghai Burying Ground

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Shanghai Times, 21 October 1937. This is a picture of the buried coffins in the cemetery of the association (Pushan shanzhuang - ????) that took care of collecting exposes corpses and abandoned cofffins in the International Settlement. This picture shows the extreme difficulties the association faced as the number of collected corpses increased and with limited accessible land due to Japanese restrictions during the war.

Keyword(s) [en]war ; death ; cemetery ; coffin ; burial ; scythe ; corpse
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