"It's important, because if we don't remember history, we're going to repeat it, the 88-year-old San Rafael resident said, offering her version of a sentiment also promulgated by the late San Jose writer Iris Chang, whose best-selling book, The Rape of Nanking, chronicled Japanese barbarism in the former Chinese capital in 1937."
"Unless we truly understand how these atrocities can happen, we can't be certain that it won't happen again, Chang had said."
"I think war is just evil. Everybody suffers."
Jean Bee Chan, an 88-year-old retired Sonoma State mathematics professor, survived starvation under Japanese occupation in rural China during World War II. Chan, who lost her younger brother to an epidemic, has partnered with Pacific Atrocities Education to raise awareness of Japanese war crimes that affected tens of millions across Asia. Chan will speak at a Sept. 18 conference at the Presidio Officer's Club in San Francisco to share her family's experience. Chan emphasizes that remembering atrocities is essential to preventing repetition and echoes warnings that understanding how atrocities occur is vital to stopping them.
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