Since the 2005 celebrations, many of the URLs mentionned on the website for that date have been archived by their creators. That is to say that those particular pages are now -- no longer avilable. Sorry for that ...
Residents of the Chinese city of Weifang paid tribute yesterday to the Scottish runner Eric Liddell, hero of the film Chariots of Fire. Liddell, a devout Christian, became famous for winning the 400 metres at the 1924 Paris Olympics after refusing to run his best distance, the 100 metres, because the heats were on a Sunday. He subsequently became a missionary in China. As part of a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Japanese internment camp where he died of a brain tumour in 1945, Chinese officials, old friends and fellow inmates laid a wreath at a memorial marking his grave.
Source: Daily Telegraph.
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Camp survivors mark 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation Aug 19, 2005
67 elderly survivors of Weixian concentration camp and their family members gathered at the former camp site in Weifang city to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation. About 2,000 people, mainly foreigners, were put into the camp between 1942 and 1945 by the Japanese army. (People's Daily Online, China)
Concentration camp survivors celebrate liberation anniversary Aug 18, 2005
WEIFANG, Shandong, August 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Seventy-year-old David Birch never imagined he could return to the former concentration camp where he lived as a kid some 60 years ago ... On Wednesday, nearly 70 elderly survivors of Weishien concentration camp and their family gathered at the former camp site in east China's Weifang city to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation ... The former camp site in east China's Weifang city. (Xinhuanet, China -- China)
American and British children of World War II revisit Japanese prison camp in China Aug 18, 2005
WEIFANG, China -- Mary Previte, a New Jersey state legislator, was the 7-year-old daughter of missionaries living in China when she and her siblings were captured by Japanese forces in 1941 ... The camp in Weifang -- a converted Presbyterian missionary -- was composed of European-style brick buildings surrounded by fields and trees ... Mao Huatai, a Weifang resident visiting the newly opened park, said he saw a boyhood friend killed by Japanese soldiers. (North County Times)
