1938, the Japanese army occupied Shanghai. In order to publicize the Japanese, they pretended to be kind and approved Rao Jiaju's works, which were published in the weekly 1 at that time. At that time165438+10.2, at Rao Jiaju's suggestion, the southern city of Shanghai needed to set aside an area to resettle refugees. Rao Jiaju finally established a refugee area on165438+1October 9 through his own efforts and various negotiations. At first, the China police were responsible for maintaining law and order in this refugee area, but it fell under the control of the Japanese army on June 5438+065438+ 10/5.
After three years, this refugee area ceased to operate, which helped protect more than 300,000 people in China. On June 1940, Rao Jiaju also left China for Paris to continue his rescue work. At that time, Rao Jiaju's work was greatly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi and others, and he was awarded a certificate and a thank-you letter. Even after the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, he was full of praise, praising him for rescuing China refugees with the full cooperation of the Japanese army. Hong Wen Hirota, then the Japanese Prime Minister, also wrote a letter to thank Rao Jiaju for his dedication to the humanitarian cause.
Rao Jiaju died of leukemia during the disaster relief in Berlin on September 1946 at the age of 68. After Rao Jiaju's death, the Shanghai refugee area he founded was regarded by the world as a model for protecting civilians in wartime. 1949 The Fourth Geneva Convention even incorporated Rao Jiaju's various relief measures in China into the Convention as a standard model to be bound.
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