SHENYANG, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition relaying the horrors of a notorious prisoner of war (POW) camp in northeast China, will be held in San Francisco of the United States starting Nov. 21.
The Shenyang World War II Allied Prisoners Camp, originally known by the Japanese as Mukden POW Camp, was located in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province. It is the best preserved of more than 200 POW camps established by Japan in the Asian-Pacific region.
Among the 2,000 incarcerated in the camp during World War II were soldiers from the United States and United Kingdom.
About 300 soldiers died in the camp during their three-year incarceration.
Organized by Shenyang WWII Allied Prisoners Camp Site Museum, the exhibition will run for two weeks at the World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall in San Francisco.
The exhibition will offer visitors a chance to view the prisoners' dark days in the camp and show their tenacious, relentless struggle against the Japanese soldiers through historic photographs as well as archives, diaries, memoirs and caricatures, according to Fan Lihong, curator of the museum.
Fan said that they hope the exhibition will show visitors a unique perspective of the Asia-Pacific war, and let more people learn about the catastrophe and pain war can bring.
"We also want to tell the American visitors that the friendship between China and the U.S. during the war will never be forgotten," Fan said.
It will be the second time that the Shenyang POW camp has held an exhibition abroad. The first was held in Liverpool of Britain in 2015.
