The Memorial Hall for the Dead Miners in Qidaogou Iron Mine is located in Qidaogou Village, south of Guo Song Town, Tonghua County, which is away from the village center 1 huali and Qidaogou Iron Mine 1 km, covering an area of 2,800 square meters and a protected area of 1.500 square meters. The monument is 7 meters high, 2 meters wide and 0.65 meters thick. The front of the monument is engraved with a monument to the dead miners in Qidaogou Iron Mine during the Japanese and Puppet rule.
Qidaogou Iron Mine in Tonghua County was discovered by local Shennongdu as early as 1898. 1905, the Qing government ceded the mining area to Li, the landlord who had made contributions to pacify the Boxer Rebellion. After the Japanese invaders invaded Northeast China, they plundered all kinds of resources crazily. From 1933 to 1938, they sent technicians to Qidaogou iron mine in Tonghua county for exploration many times, and set up Qidaogou Mine Institute in 1938. Qidaogou Iron Mine was officially mined in 1939 and surrendered in 1945. The invaders insisted on the fascist strategy of "mining the rich instead of the poor", "wanting mines instead of people" and "exchanging people for mines", which made the miners subjected to extremely cruel slavery and destruction. There are four sources of miners, one is swindled from Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places, the other is apportioned to catch floating waves, the third is to catch anti-Japanese armed personnel and patriots, and the fourth is to participate in the "hard labor official team" of school-age youth who failed the "national soldiers" inspection. At that time, the production equipment in the mine was very simple, and the nutrition was poor, the medical and health conditions were extremely poor, and there were no safety facilities. In addition, vicious means such as overtime work, deduction of food and wealth, and forced beatings have caused a large number of miners to be disabled and die. The Japanese built two smelting furnaces, which were turned on 24 hours a day, but the bodies could not be disposed of in time, so they simply threw the bodies or half-dead miners into the dug pits, forming three "mass graves" in the railway west, Caojiafen and Banfanggou. The bodies were everywhere, and the bones were so dense that it was terrible. From 1939 to 1945, more than 17000 workers died of disease, hunger, accidents and disability.
1939 to 1945, 1964 used in May. May 1964, 1 Tonghua county people's Committee erected a monument at the "mass grave" on the west side of the largest railway, and the site was well protected and utilized, with a high level of construction. Now it is a county-level cultural relics protection unit and a patriotic education base for municipal cultural relics protection units. (Provided by Party School of Tonghua County Committee)
Qidaogou Village: Qidaogou Village